Motives Quotes

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

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

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.