Motive Quotes

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.

~ Vera Nazarian

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

~ Toba Beta

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

~ Sanhita Baruah

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sometimes people forget the bridge that connected them to success.

~ Nikita Dudani

There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an inner energy; a 'motor' driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately... come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer - worldly - energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages - right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together - blended, combined and re-entwined - motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just 'self' serving but enriching to all humanity and societies...just as it should be.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

~ Joanne Harris

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

~ R.d. Blackmore

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

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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.

~ Suzy Kassem

We could scrub the floor for a tired friend, or dress a wound for a patient in a hospital, or lay the table and wash up for the family; but we shall not do it in martyr spirit or with that worse spirit of self-congratulation, of feeling that we are making ourselves more perfect, more unselfish, more positively kind.We shall do it just for one thing, that our hands make Christ's hands in our life, that our service may let Christ serve through us, that our patience may bring Christ's patience back to the world.

~ Caryll Houselander

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What is a goal without a purpose?

~ J.r. Rim

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.

~ Donna Tartt

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

~ Thiruman Archunan

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

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

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

~ Toba Beta

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

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The layman need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.

~ A.w. Tozer

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible.Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.

~ Thomas Paine

The motive of man is a mystery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be cautious of every motive behind any action, because not every smile is genuine; sometimes it's just a grin.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

~ George Eliot

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?

~ Adam Levin

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.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

~ Farrah Naseem

Your heart influences your art.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That’s because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities.

~ Lawrence Downes

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

~ P.d. James

Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.

~ Brother Andrew

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

~ Peter Høeg

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.

~ Daniel Kahneman

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

~ Denis Diderot