Motive

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

Billy Graham

No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necess...

Donna Tartt

One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story—the money is always in place, already allocated, the motive everywhere is fe...

Thomas Pynchon

Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive...

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