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We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
Lady britomart, major Barbara George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo –
Irish playwright, critic
Great man will never do great mischief but for some great end.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
Men are not only bad from good motives, but also often good from bad motives.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
The motive for a deed usually changes during its performance: at least, after the deed has been done, it seems quite different.
Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) German dramatist
No man does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet
Never ascrible to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M.Barrie(1860-1937) British playwright.
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander.
We should often have reason to be ashamed of our most brilliant actions if the world could see the motives from which they spring.
Rochefoucauld.
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
Bovee.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, motives and dispositions hold the place of actions.
Blair
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
Colton
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources: one oure, the other impure.
Hare
Acts are nothing except as they are fruits of a state, except as they indicate what the man is; words are nothing except as they express a mind of purpose.
F.D. Maurice
Though a good motive cannot sanctify a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motive, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is
wisdom.
W.Jay
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good, and the fear of evil.
Johnson
God make man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas.
H.W. Beecher
It is motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.
Bruyere.
It is not the incense, or the offering which is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshiper.
Seneca
He that does good for good’s sake, seek neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Penn.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
Lady britomart, major Barbara George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo –
Irish playwright, critic
Great man will never do great mischief but for some great end.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
Men are not only bad from good motives, but also often good from bad motives.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
The motive for a deed usually changes during its performance: at least, after the deed has been done, it seems quite different.
Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) German dramatist
No man does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet
Never ascrible to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M.Barrie(1860-1937) British playwright.
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander.
We should often have reason to be ashamed of our most brilliant actions if the world could see the motives from which they spring.
Rochefoucauld.
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
Bovee.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, motives and dispositions hold the place of actions.
Blair
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
Colton
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources: one oure, the other impure.
Hare
Acts are nothing except as they are fruits of a state, except as they indicate what the man is; words are nothing except as they express a mind of purpose.
F.D. Maurice
Though a good motive cannot sanctify a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motive, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is
wisdom.
W.Jay
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good, and the fear of evil.
Johnson
God make man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas.
H.W. Beecher
It is motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.
Bruyere.
It is not the incense, or the offering which is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshiper.
Seneca
He that does good for good’s sake, seek neither praise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Penn.
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