Quotes About Motive

Louise would have removed his organs without anesthetic and given them to more worthy people.

A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime...

If you look closely enough, every decision has its roots in what a person wants. Scratch the surface, and you'll find a reason behind every action.

Q: Why must the cannon be fired? A: The cannon must be fired because that is the reason for cannons.

But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...? You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'And the other answers, 'Because they could.'That is the only answer there ever is.

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Every why hath a wherefore.

It could mean that some unknowable Spirit ruled the world & directed his actions, or perhaps that he had simply been lucky. Perhaps it meant that the avoidance motive - fear - should be ignored in all-important matters. The Room of Vital Wisdom may be empty, he thought, but shut should not prevent us from going inside.

You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea.

Underpinning many individual claims to want equality of outcome in society is a motive to elevate ones own morality above others, therefore making a mockery of both equality and morality.

A lady had no business going around not murdering people when she had excellent motive, plausible means, and the correct temperament. Elspeth was decisive, physically strong, and by her own admission capable of coaxing along a seedling of a grudge until it flowered. "How dare she be innocent." I muttered. "It is most inconsiderate.

Know what you desire, but, more importantly, why you desire it. That why was where the trick lay, I realized. Why was a land of trapdoors and hidden places, trees and rocks that looked like one thing, but were actually another.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

No man does anything from a single motive.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.