Quotes About Motive

It shouldn't be just about 'what you do', but also 'how you do' and maybe more importantly 'why you do'.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Cui bono? [To whose advantage?]

T)he motive consecrates the deed.

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.

The motive for discipling others begins in the love of God and nothing less. He has loved us in Christ, and so we love him. And we do this in part by loving those he has placed around us.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

Target Two accidentally (I'm guessing here; maybe they just didn't care for each other) stabbed Target One.

If you could not picture what people endured, how could you figure out what drove them to crime?

The root of the matter? the thing I mean? is love, Christian 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.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

The motive power of democracy is love

Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation.

I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

Look at the creeps who favor capital punishment; you get the feeling they want to be the ones to pull the switch.

society is at the mercy of a murderer without a motive

the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. What matters is the motive, and the motive must be of a certain kind. What matters is doing the right thing because it's right, not for some ulterior motive.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.

As Tozer said in The Pursuit of God, "it is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.

Don't make sacrifices in life, instead turn them into offerings of love. Sacrifice is painful and offerings are pleasurable, just change your perspective, feelings, motive and not your action. Your offerings will sky -rise, this world will be nurtured to MickeyMize.