Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old motive quotes, motive sayings, and motive proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.Haniel Long
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.William James
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We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.Tim Cook
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Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.Matthew Hopkins
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The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.Marion G. Romney
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.Jane Austen
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No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.Carrie Fisher
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.Jerry Bridges
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Life always take on the character of its motive.J. G. Holland
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The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.John Petit-Senn
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.Jean De La Bruyere
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The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.Robert Grudin
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Vanity is a motive of immense potency.Bertrand Russell
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The noblest motive is the public good.Virgil
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Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.H. L. Mencken
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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.Mahatma Gandhi
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It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to itJean De La Bruyere
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.G. I. Gurdjieff
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A wrong motive involves defeat.Mary Baker Eddy
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Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.John Hawkes
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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.W. E. Channing
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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.John M. Barrie
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The motive power is the cause of all life.Leonardo da Vinci
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Pure motives do not insure perfect results.Christian Nestell Bovee
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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.Immanuel Kant
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The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.Stephen Covey
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To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.Wallace D. Wattles
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.C.J. Sansom
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.Albert Ellis