Famous quotes containing the word motive:
“We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a life-work of teaching, of social workwe know that we would lay it down with hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“And I envy the intransigence of my own
Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
See the victims face become their own
Or find his motive sabotage their motives.”
—Louis MacNeice (19071963)