When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
No one does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George Eliot
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Leonardo da Vinci
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.
Ravi Zacharias
My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
Cameron Bright
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Lord Byron
Profit per se is not my motive.
Chris Hughes