Motive Quotes
Motive Quote of the day
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.
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.
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
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.
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.
In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.
Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
