Motive Quotations | Page 2

The motive is missing from what we have heard over the past two months.

The motive for why the shooter shot the victim doesn't fly with what everyone knows about Bryan. Here's a student who is doing well academically. Why would he have any involvement in a shooting with someone he doesn't know?

The motive for this kidnapping is totally open.

The motive behind limiting what browser you develop for is laziness. If you develop Web applications, you must develop to the W3C standards. You do not use Microsoft's proprietary capabilities because you'll get caught in it later.

The motive at this time is not clear.

So there's another motive for recommending these people, ... I think it's incredibly confusing for investors.

That was a big mystery, not having a motive and (the defendants) being family and all. I think that was a tragedy, I think that was a travesty, I think that was hideous. That was the worst thing that you could do to anyone, but you can't just pin that on to somebody just because of what happened.

This might increase people's motive to hold more foreign currency, thus largely decreasing our country's risk on foreign currency.

There was no market whatsoever. There have been no U.S. indicators today that could show us direction, nothing. The market was seeking a motive to move, but it only could digest yesterday's words by (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan.

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

It makes no difference to us what the motive is. The bottom line is these items are prohibited, and we're to stop them if we can.

It's possible that it's nothing but a prank, but also possible that it's more emblematic of a larger problem that the city's high schools are having. Who knows what the motive and thinking of the individuals involved in the spill might be? But it's impossible for me to think that students haven't noticed the quality of education they are receiving and the conditions of the buildings where they are expected to learn and are not frustrated by what they see.

Deputies are still looking for the suspects and for a possible motive for the attack. The suspects did not take anything from Medina, only threatened him.

Eighty percent of our gas transits through Ukraine, which was the motive behind our Ukrainian colleagues' decision to start to blackmail us ... But we are ready to go to the Swedish court in the event of Ukraine's unsanctioned use of gas.

At this time, the motive -- if there is one -- appears to be financial,

The investigation will determine what his (Akbar's) motive may have been. He was having what some people might call, it seems, an attitude problem.

In my case there was only one motive - medico-political - because of the doctor's strike. I cannot prove it myself but ... I believe it can be proven,

I have no ulterior motive than to help small businesses.

If you were going to condemn someone to life in prison, you need to know why, to have some motive ... it's not there.

I just felt like cutting my hair, ... There wasn't a secret motive behind it. I just finally got tired of it. It was hot, bothersome.

But I have never seen any proof that there are such laws of nature, far less any proof that the strongest motive always prevails.

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

The motive power of democracy is love

You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Profit per se is not my motive.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

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

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

I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one's action has to be benefiting others. People like me want to satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes.

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

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

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

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

A wrong motive involves defeat.

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

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

When youre a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are.

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

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

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

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

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

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

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

The entire division is so tight that there's not much difference between any of the teams. As an organization, we have pride in what we do and want to play as well as we can in every single game left. Still, our main motive right now is playoff preparation.

The improper striking of women from the jury the improper exclusion of evidence of foot fetishes that proves Bone's motive improper exclusion of the clip of Bone's confession and the improper argument of their theory of motive.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

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

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

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

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

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there.

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

The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

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

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Motivation is motive in action.

Motives are causes experienced from within.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Almost all education has a political motive.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

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.

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

Fie, fie upon her!There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body.

The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the soul of man.

Never mistake motive for action.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

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

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

The main motive for ''nonattachment'' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

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