Nouns denoting goals
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- conscience
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- occasion
- reason
- cathexis
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- why
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- voice of conscience
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- signal
- any incitement to action
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
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