Motive Quotes
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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
Willa Cather
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Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
Ezra Taft Benson
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster
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None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
Barbara Brennan
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
Jerry Bridges
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.
Giancarlo Esposito
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Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.
Ray Bradbury
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
Stephen Covey
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
George Eliot
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
Ray Bradbury
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The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey
