Motive Quotes
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
William Ellery Channing
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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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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
Honore de Balzac
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No one does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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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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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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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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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
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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
