"I just wanted to be certain that I was not alone in my motives."

"Your lack of confidence in my motives is very distressing."

I am no spy," he began, "for there is nothing sinister in my motives.

A few of the characters are noble, some rather nasty, many mixed in their motives.

The police would not say what role any of the five played in the melee, or their motives.

Because surely this was true: there could be nothing sinister in their motives.

Although nature writers vary in their motives and habits, they tend to have much in common.

We must make a distinction also in his motives.

You don't even believe in your own good motives.

And she did believe in his good motives.