Motive Quotes
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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.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
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It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.
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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
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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.
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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?
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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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.
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True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."
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No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
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No one does anything from a single motive.
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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.
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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.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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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.
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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.
