Tag - Motive Quotes

Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Motive Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Motive Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Steven Pinker

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

– Steven Pinker

Stephane Hessel

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

– Stephane Hessel

Stand Watie

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

– Stand Watie

Sophie Hannah

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone’s particular range of psychological afflictions.

– Sophie Hannah

Satish Kaushik

The motive behind a Delhi Film Council is simple – with so many filmmakers coming to Delhi to shoot their films, casting Delhi’s young lads in their movies and even keeping the city as the base of their story, they surely need more collaboration in future. When they’ll have such a council in the city, they will be able to work better.

– Satish Kaushik

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sally Field

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I’m an actor, that’s all. I just do what I do.

– Sally Field

Ryan Kwanten

I don’t necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I’d much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I’d prefer to play the villain because there’s a reason, there’s a motive behind their madness.

– Ryan Kwanten

Rudolf Steiner

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the ‘strongest’ of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

– Rudolf Steiner

Ronald Kessler

Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.

– Ronald Kessler

Roger Scruton

The real cure to immigration, obviously, is to make sure that there is prosperity around the world so that people don’t have the motive. Not just prosperity, but freedom.

– Roger Scruton

Robert M Pirsig

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What’s the motive?

– Robert M Pirsig

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