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Motivation   /mˌoʊtəvˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Motivation

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: motive, need.  "He acted with the best of motives"
2.
The condition of being motivated.
3.
The act of motivating; providing incentive.  Synonym: motivating.



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"Motivation" Quotes from Famous Books



... stunts that he cannot do, dress, or behave better, use better language, keep better company, and thus find my triumph and revenge. A man rejected or scorned by a woman sometimes makes a great man of himself, with the motivation more or less developed to make her sorry or humiliated. Anger may prompt a man to go in to win his enemy's girl. A taunt or an insult sometimes spurs the victim of it to towering ambition to show the world and especially the abuser ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... scientists now working directly on space feeding and nutrition is working effectively at a rate only attained by high motivation. But this motivation suffices and their efforts will ultimately provide at least a partially closed space feeding system by the time it is critically needed and, eventually, an ideal one for long voyages of man into the remoter ...
— The Practical Values of Space Exploration • Committee on Science and Astronautics
... theoretical side, should have its full share of prizes and scholarships to stimulate the seventy to seventy-five per cent of students who are now unaffected by the influence of athletics. By these methods the motivation of gymnastics, which now in large measure goes to waste in enthusiasm, could be utilised to aid the greatly needed intellectualization of those exercises which in their nature are more akin to work than play. Indeed, ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall


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