Quotes about Motive
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
— George Bernard Shaw
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
— Ravi Zacharias
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the cause of causes
— Walt Whitman
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
— John Eldredge
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
— CS Lewis
Motive is the seed from which big sales grow.
— Napoleon Hill
look first for the most logical motive they may use to influence the buyer's thinking and decision.
— Napoleon Hill
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
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
— Adoniram Judson
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
— Publilius Syrus