Nouns denoting goals
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- life
- a motive for living
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- occasion
- reason
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- signal
- any incitement to action
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- incitation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
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