Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent to a particular action can be evaluated.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
