Motive Quotes

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

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.

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.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

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.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

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.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.