Quotes About Motive

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

The LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you" (1 Chron. 28:9). In her bitterness she sought her Lord.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Motive makes a fine horse when tamed by understanding and bridled by wisdom.

I think a lie with a purpose is wan iv th' worst kind an' th' mos' profitable.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

Fear as a motive can always be counted on to have its deterring, restraining force, but no life is safe which is only ruled by fear.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.

knowledge of character is essential to the solving of crime," I said. "Without knowing the motive, you can't solve anything, and without understanding character, motive is unknowable. I have also heard him say that no man can act in a way that is contrary to his own nature.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully

Sometimes you do the wrong thing for the right reason.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.

he came to see there was nothing arbitrary or capricious about the Trump administration's attitude toward public data. Under each act of data suppression usually lay a narrow commercial motive: a gun lobbyist, a coal company, a poultry company.

I cannot justify my actions. Roldero had said that men must be judged by their deeds, not their motives. I offer such speculation only n the hope that by understanding our motives we may thus control our deeds.