73 Quotes About Motive

48. As has been said many times, in everything we do God examines our motive, to see whether we are doing it for His sake or for some other purpose. Thus when we desire to do something good, we should not do it for the sake of popularity: we should have God as our goal, so that, with our gaze always fixed on Him, we may do everything for His sake. Otherwise we shall undergo all the trouble of performing the act and yet lose the reward.

I have always wanted to kill you, all my life led to that blow. Jealousy and hatred compose my earliest memories. I have killed you every day in my thoughts.

The longing for company may be no less powerful or irresponsible in its effects than the sexual motive once was.

You cannot see a person’s heart, belief or motive unless it identifies itself with an action.

A true-crime lies in its motive, not in its action

In each case, we must ask not only who designed the model but also what they person or company is trying to accomplish.

The distance is nothing, when one has a motive.

The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?