Motives 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

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

~ Criss Jami

Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

~ Criss Jami

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

~ Criss Jami

Passion for knowledge, motivation for continuous learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

~ Criss Jami

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

~ Criss Jami

Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.

~ Jefferson Smith

Jealousy is a detestable motive.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.

~ Criss Jami

Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

~ Leo Tolstoy

God knows the motive of every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.

~ Raymond Holliwell

You can't be stop. Reach out for your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The deeds and motive of man define his personality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.

~ Jerry Bridges

When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should.

~ Ameya Agrawal

Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good -- that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action. For no action is ever carried out in the absence of motives capable of supplying the indispensable amount of energy for its execution.

~ Simone Weil

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Lord weighs the motive of every heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Along with our over-giving is our own conditional giving pattern, which can fuel so much of our resentment and feelings of “victimization” by the people to whom we are giving. We may be completely unaware of our expectations of those we assist, and our own anger and resentment may catch us off guard. This is why our martyrdom is so hard on those around us. They are aware of the price we are exacting, even when we are in denial about our own motives and expectations.

~ Mary Crocker Cook

Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

~ Holly Black

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The Maker knows the motives of men's hearts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is strange is that we may remember what we have done, but not always why we did it.

~ Gregory Maguire

You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives?

~ Christopher Fowler

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

~ John Geddes

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

~ Aristotle

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2) You post threats to someone.(3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts.(4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention.Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil? People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

~ George R.r. Martin

There is a rationale for every action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions.

~ Fredrich Von Bernhardi

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

~ Brandon Sanderson

The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.

~ Ira Remsen