Bad Motive Quotes

#1. That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

#2. The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law ...

Benjamin Tucker

#3. There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Stand Watie

#5. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard De Mandeville

#6. Whackos like Liberty Association belong in jail. I don't care if they're misguided or had bad childhoods. We've all got problems; we don't all try to kill people we disagree with.

Clancy Nacht

#7. Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.

Gregory David Roberts

#8. The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

Criss Jami

#9. Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

Suzy Kassem

#10. Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

Albert Einstein

#11. Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

Thomas Jefferson

#12. What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us.

Gregory David Roberts

#13. IN MY DEFENSE, I didn't mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn't just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear financial motive: The end of the world is bad for business.

J.C. Nelson

#14. 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

#15. We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton