Quotes About Motive

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

Motivation requires motive. The greater the potential positive impact that an action or behavior of yours can have on your life, once you define it clearly, the more motivated you will be to overcome procrastination and get it done quickly.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Every murderer thinks the victim needed killing.

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something.

Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.

We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

She knew that the presence of the timesheet made it seem as if she had an ulterior motive, though the truth was obvious to her: Sadie Green liked being praised, and Sam Masur was the best friend she had ever had.

A man with no motive is a man no one suspects. Always keep your enemies confused. If they don't know who you are or what you want, they can't predict your next move.

reasons and two reasons only. One, because

The act of murder is of itself the motive....

But the Lord is in the midst of us,b testing and probing our every motive.

Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.

In an economic system not rationally planned for human need, but developing fitfully, chaotically out of the profit motive, there seemed to be no way to avoid recurrent booms and slumps.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul."

And who are you exactly? Might I ask what you want?" "We want you," said the man. "And who am I?

There was something about the swagger in her walk that alerted him. What was Sofia's agenda?

mental influence over others, and in some cases such mental influence might be a good one, but it is the motive which makes it evil.

Love is the fulfillment of the law and should be everyone's rule of life; in the end it's the solution to every problem, the motive for all good.

Az igazmondást kevés dolog indokolja, a hazugságnak viszont végtelen sok oka lehet.

Sono poche le ragioni per dire la verità, mentre quelle per mentire sono infinite