Best motivation & motive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Literature & Existentialism

“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

“For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.”

Wells Motivation Intention Invention Motive Torture Dunces

Book:Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate a Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old Fashioned Title-page, Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes; a Vocal and Musical Medley

Source: Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate a Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old Fashioned Title-page, Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes; a Vocal and Musical Medley

“The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.”

Action Motivation Results Greater Observation Motive

Book:The Crowd

Source: The Crowd

“Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.”

Mind Real Character Action Motivation Easy Judging Depends Trials Ignorant Motive Unjust Prompts Real Character

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.”

Humans Action Motivation Four Hunger Vanity Motive Human Actions

Book:Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.”

Action Motivation Intention Motive Our Actions

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.”

Motivation Creative Creating Motive

Author:David Luiz

“Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.”

Action Motivation Deeds Motive

Author:Margaret Preston

“We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.”

Men Motivation Judging Motive

Author:Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

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

Motivation Motive Synonym

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.”

Action Motivation Bears Motive Examination

Book:Sophia

Source: Sophia

“we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.”

Motivation Moral United States Policy Conscience Motive Examining Insisting

Book:Economic philosophy

Source: Economic philosophy

“Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.”

Men Sometimes Action Motivation Humanity Strange Motive

Author:Michael Reeves

“Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life”

Inspirational Inspiration Happiness Motivation Effort Definitions Motive Happy Life Great Effort Life Changing Experience

Book:(411 p.)

Source: (411 p.)

“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.”

Wells Motivation Occasions Opponents Motive

Book:Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq

Source: Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq

“In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.”

Whole Eye Action Motivation Supreme Motive Internals Disposition Supreme Being

Book:Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait

Source: Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait

“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.”

People Ifs May Real Soul Action Motivation Peace Loses Ignorance Motive Criticize Defects

Book:The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

“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.”

Important Motivation Keys Easier Deeper Burning Motive Burning Inside

Book:First Things First

Source: First Things First

“If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Motivation Games Figures Industry Motive Acquaintance Lots Of Friends Ulterior Motive Ahead Of The Game

Author:Donald Faison

“Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.”