It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

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

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

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

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

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

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

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

I feel that whatever God gives you, happiness or sadness, there is a motive behind it.

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

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

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

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

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

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