Bad Motives Quotes

#1. Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

John Piper

#4. I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Graham Greene

#5. Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

Ben Bernanke

#6. It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.

Thomas Sowell

#7. 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

#8. How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Laurence Sterne

#9. Do not feed your motives, just feed the bears.

Anthony Liccione

#10. There are always two sides to every story, Kelley. Something I learned playing Richard the Third and Macbeth: if you're playing the 'bad guy', you never really think of yourself as bad. It's just that your motives are often ... misunderstood by everyone else.

Lesley Livingston

#11. It was tempting to view your family as an extension of yourself, but it was a mistake.

Josh Lanyon

#12. I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

Jennifer Tilly

#13. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

John Sununu

#14. In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I love being in the moment. I love my family. I love chocolate. I love baking.

Debbi Fields

#16. Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

Jon Krakauer

#17. 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

#18. The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

Ernest Becker

#19. 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

#20. If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth.
Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in.
Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts.
No one is a bad person in his or her own mind.
We are all noble protagonists.

Rick Remender

#21. Much better hang wrong fellow than no fellow.

George Orwell

#22. I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#23. I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.

Lawrence Weiner

#24. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Solomon Northup