The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

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

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.

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.

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.