There is no more powerful motive than the need to escape danger. (samthedogtrainer.com)
From a mixture of powerful motives, including genuine conviction or remorse, guilt, uncertainty, agnosticism, cultural exclusiveness, fear of criticism and disenchantment, mission has acquired a bad reputation in church and society. (religion-online.org)
Another powerful motive for many in the southern countries, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, countries that had never in their very long histories had a hard currency, was to exploit the desire of the Germans, and the permanent EU civil service, for a larger, closer Europe, by signing into the euro, acquiring for the first time a hard currency, that they confidently expected Germany to finance. (canadianbusiness.com)