Motive Behind Any Action Quotes & Sayings

The people of Luna don't need a princess. They need a revolutionary." Cinder furrowed her brow. "A revolutionary," she repeated. She liked that a lot better than princess. The — Marissa Meyer

In order to follow your heart, one must do the wrong thing — Andrew Martin

Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance. — Donald O'Connor

Motive lies behind action. It is the root of behaviour and attitude, the fuel we need to progress from desire to achievement. In our humanity we are driven to survive, and to be loved makes the living worthwhile. — Sarah Tun

Just like you can't reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can't get without giving. — Debasish Mridha

Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive. — Hortense Odlum

We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong. - Dorothy L. Sayers, Introduction, Pg. 4 — The Detection Club

If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different. — Bryan Stevenson

Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it. — Abbas Kiarostami