Nouns denoting goals
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- morals
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- life
- a motive for living
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- occasion
- reason
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
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