Your reason for doing something is your motive. Your motive to go to school every day is to learn. Or maybe the thought of your parents' anger and a run in with the truant officer is motive enough.
That which moves; a mover.
Noun
the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
Noun
a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
n.
That which moves; a mover.
n.
That which incites to action; anything prompting or
exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement;
object.
n.
The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is
reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short
figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed.
See also Leading motive, under Leading.
n.
That which produces conception, invention, or creation in
the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or
controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
a.
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move;
as, a motive argument; motive power.
v. t.
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Motive
By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites, or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctively.3.
Motive
Motive
That which moves; a mover.
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move;
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Usage Examples
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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Other Usage ExamplesFor the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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