Quotes About Motive

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

Never do something for just one reason.

There's a fine line between justice and revenge. The difference is in the motive.

There are 6 reasons anyone does anything: Love, Faith, Greed, boredom, Fear, or... Revenge.

I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any weakness to a cat, the cat is gonna take over.

I always have positive intentions.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

Cartels south of the border actually have a lot in common with ISIS. In fact, ISIS could learn a thing or two from their gruesome tactics. The biggest differences between the two are motive and religion.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn't that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular logic.

If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost always join you in dialogue.

What had possessed her to kiss him?

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

there should be no love just because, but only 'love because of.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

That inescapable animal walks with me.Has followed me since the black womb held,Moves where I move, distorting my gesture,A caricature, a swollen shadow,A stupid clown of the spirit's motive,Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness,The secret life of belly and bone.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.