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Example sentences for "motivate"

Lexicographically close words:
motionless; motionlessly; motionlessness; motions; motiv; motivated; motivates; motivating; motivation; motivations
  1. Feeling so much better I began to find the incredibly boring weeks of prophylactic fasting too difficult to motivate myself to do, and I stopped.

  2. Treat yourself by taking an annual trip to Hawaii, fasting at a hotel on the beach--do whatever it takes to motivate yourself.

  3. Leucippe's letter is found by Melitte and helps motivate the plot in its emotional aspects, for it works Melitte up through jealousy and despair to such passionate ardor that she persuades Clitophon to sleep one night with her.

  4. These problems may then motivate you to enter individual therapy.

  5. In the first step, you become familiar with the main kinds of goals and problems that motivate people to enter therapy.

  6. Anxiety and depression, instead of being viewed as undesirable symptoms to be eliminated, can motivate people to change and grow.

  7. The same pressures motivate the stutterer to keep quiet, speaking only when absolutely necessary.

  8. Additional experience, just the fact of living longer, very likely will lead you to perceive yourself differently and motivate you to modify your priorities and change your goals.

  9. Will she not rather contribute, by a still further revelation of those inherent powers that motivate her life, to enhance the priceless heritage which the love and wisdom of a departed Master have conferred upon her?

  10. There is no call upon the commonwealth to motivate for the commission of crime, through pyramiding upon clemency that is spurned.

  11. Counter habit, taken on usually from their first conscious thoughts, will motivate them to sip of this and that; to plan for variety of employment without regard for bread-winning results and their social rehabilitation.

  12. Any sort of desire or need, left unsatisfied in the day, may motivate a dream.

  13. These childish wishes are the core of the Unconscious and help to motivate all dreams, but more recently suppressed {507} wishes may also be gratified in dream symbolism.

  14. The essential thing about value is that it motivate our conduct.

  15. And the economist, tracing the subtler forces that underlie values, and so motivate the direction of industry, should know more, rather than less, than the entrepreneur.

  16. Beginning at the point of contact= The instructor who strives to motivate the subject matter he teaches usually begins with that phase of the subject which is most intimately related to the student's life and environment.

  17. The college instructor who tries to motivate courses in the appreciation of music or painting finds no great difficulty in leading his students to an enthusiastic conviction of their inspirational value.

  18. Very much the same reasons motivate us in withdrawing from all political movements, however close some of their ideals may be to ours.

  19. Moral Motives and War That the attitude of nations toward one another is not, generally speaking, an ethical attitude and that moral principles do not motivate the conduct of peoples we have already suggested.

  20. These moods are powers which motivate conduct.

  21. This is needed to motivate effort and insure right impressions.

  22. Again, the competitive impulse can often be used to motivate drill.

  23. Such a case appeals to us especially fitted to motivate the creation of projection formations.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motivate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.