Quotes About Motive

Every act intends some good.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the great motive power, the soul of the universe. And the sole instrument of life was heredity, which made the world; so that if one could only understand it, master it and make it do one's bidding, one could remake the world at will.

I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I only do it, at last. I hope he will not die before I do!

But who could possibly have a motive to kill us?

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

Finally, Madison dismissed religion as an effective restraint on oppressive mass behavior: "The inefficacy of this restraint on individuals is well known," and experience shows that religion "has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.

More secrets are improperly disclosed from boredom than from any other motive;

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

conocido principio del comportamiento humano, cuando pedimos a alguien que nos haga un favor, tendremos más posibilidades de conseguirlo si le damos un motivo. A las personas les gusta tener motivos para hacer algo.

You don't understand a lie, Molly said as we paralleled an ancient boardwalk gone white with salt, until you understand the motivation behind it.

El hecho de que una persona ejerza tan profundo efecto en ti transforma todas tus maniobras posteriores. Tu intenso deseo contagiará a tu objetivo, y le brindará la peligrosa sensación de tener poder sobre ti.

These types, for example, will often display their weakness and lack of power as a kind of moral virtue. But true powerlessness, without any motive of self-interest, would not publicize its weakness to gain sympathy or respect. Making a show of one's weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power

The choice isn't always about what you do, son, but why you do it.

There may be motive, pathology, but it's not really a why, because the only real answer is always the same. Why did the bad guy do the really bad thing to this victim? Because he, they, it, could. That's the real and only true answer; all the rest is just lawyer and profiler talk.

what is apparently a good deed need not really be a good deed, for every moment is governed by factors that are often beyond human comprehension.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.

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?

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Devotion to God is the only acceptable motive for actions that are pleasing to God.

Our motive for obedience is just as important, probably more so, to God than the level of our performance. A person who struggles with some persistent sin but does so out of love for God is more pleasing to Him than the person who has no such struggle but is proud of his or her self-control. Of course, the person who obeys from a motive of love will be concerned about his or her performance. There will be a sincere desire and an earnest effort to please God in every area of life.