Finally, there is another reason new fathers go back to work soon after the birth, a selfish motive we might as well acknowledge.

It's not entirely bad, though you could read selfish motives into it.

I am doing this for my own selfish motives.

Probably he's got some solid selfish motive, something that will bring him a profit in cold hard cash.

There is a selfish motive behind throwing money at politicians.

Others view him as a villain, able to act only from selfish motives.

Since no crime has been committed in the absence of a selfish motive, these are mostly open and shut cases.

"I did something good for a human being, out of entirely selfish motives."

"Make no mistake, we're doing this for selfish motives," Green said.

Surely what he did hadn't been entirely from selfish motives?