Good Motive Quotes: top 29 famous quotes about Good Motive

Good Motive Quotes & Sayings

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Any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the giver's only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return. — Ayn Rand

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge. — Albert Einstein

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block. — William J. Clinton

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime ... — Lord Acton

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living. — Arundhati Roy

The noblest motive is the public good. — Virgil

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. — Brander Matthews

That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If one gets his life together, there will be enough love and bounty to take care of every avenue of life. — Harold Klemp

Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. — Gregory David Roberts

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. — Immanuel Kant

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence. — Joseph Butler

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away. — Carrie Fisher

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. — Henry Giroux

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. — Ben Bradlee

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. — Wendell Berry

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely. — Ariana Grande

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Ramakrishna

In the motive lies the good or ill. — Samuel Johnson

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton

We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day. — Ronald Reagan

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? — Adam Levin

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. — Ayn Rand

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre. — Margaret Thatcher