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Motivated   /mˈoʊtəvˌeɪtəd/   Listen
Motivated

adjective
1.
Provided with a motive or given incentive for action.  "A group of politically motivated men"






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"Motivated" Quotes from Famous Books



... authority and the rank-and-file arises, the subject can't be dropped at that point. What puts most of the grit into the machinery isn't that privileges exist, but that they are exercised too often by persons who are not motivated by a passionate sense of duty. For it is an almost inviolable rule of human behavior that the man who is concerned most of all with his responsibilities will be fretted least about the matter of his privileges, and that his exercise of any rightful privilege ...
— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense



Words linked to "Motivated" :   driven, actuated, intended, unmotivated, impelled



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