When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception. . bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.
Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.
And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well By the purification of the motive In the ground of our beseeching
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.
Almost all education has a political motive.
Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.
. . . I'm not conscious of the speed. . . it's not my motive. . . my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard. . . it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing. . . I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore