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“Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.”

Littles Motivation Consequence Concern Motive Liable Preoccupation

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.”

Ifs Action Goodness Consequence Be Good Agents Motive

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.”

Action Ought Glory Consequence Motive Our Actions

Book:The letters of Pliny the consul:: with occasional remarks

Source: The letters of Pliny the consul:: with occasional remarks

“The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.”

Giving Body Young Attention Stupid Figures Ten Consequence Notion Teenager Motive Young Women Never Change Parking Women's Bodies Parking Lot

Author:Richard Brookhiser

“Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.”

Goal Natural Enemy Tree Consequence Motive Soil Uniformity Exemplary Natural Enemies

Book:Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

“True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.”

Political Regret Forgiveness Consequence Sorry Motive Apology Apologizing I'm Sorry Remorse I Am Sorry Am Sorry I Apologize Saying Sorry Being Sorry Saying I'm Sorry Friendship Apology

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin