Motive Quotes

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Sometimes people forget the bridge that connected them to success.

The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

What is a goal without a purpose?

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

A business fails when motive becomes more important than the trust.

. . . most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why

Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

The motive of man is a mystery.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity.

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

Your heart influences your art.

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.