Sentence examples for highest motives from inspiring English sources

The highest motives to right action will generally be found the most effectual.

The people who occupied the power station's chimney in November last year were prompted to act by the highest motives.

Perhaps the star, with the highest motives, wants to offer his solidarity with the insulted and the injured.

Organizers of the U.N. conference may have had the highest motives, but you can't launch a global fight against racism from a base of bad faith and hypocrisy.

Some, probably most, just came to the biggest pop concert in the history of ballyhoo, but I do believe many came with the highest motives.

John Hay, at the time the American ambassador to Britain, writing to his friend Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba, referred to the war against Spain as "a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune which loves the brave".

HEFFERNAN -- A hero has higher motives?

They may surprise themselves by the insistence of their own high motives and values.

We could still debate the nominee's qualifications, whether with high motives or low.

They may surprise themselves by the insistence of their own higher motives and values.

High motives and noble words, however, are not enough to show one's gratitude; serious commitment and vigorous action are required to achieve positive ends.