7 sentences with “motivations”

Always keep in mind the motivations that prompted you to quit.

The Turks were driven by two motivations: the tradition of warfare against non-Muslims, and a direct interest in plundering defeated enemies.

Thucydides' work meticulously follows the events of the war while investigating the human motivations and subsequent decisions that caused the events.

In other words, history as written by the Greeks does not merely list facts, but explains the human motivations at work in historical events and phenomena.

Freud also admitted that he could not really understand women's motivations; he famously claimed that the question psychology could not answer was "what does a woman want?".

1. Question your motivations: Why do you want to exercise? To lose weight? To strengthen your heart? To feel better? These reasons are not great motivators, because they focus on the results; not the process.

One of the main motivations for European explorers was the search for direct access to luxury goods that bypassed the Eastern mercantile networks that had traditionally benefited from the long-distance trade routes between East and West.