"inner motivation" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person's drive, determination, and ambition based on their own feelings or beliefs rather than external influences. For example, "My inner motivation to succeed was so strong that nothing could stop me."
You have to work out the character's inner motivation and tuning from repeatedly watching the performance.
The defining trait of this liberalism is a will to be liberated from the coercion of external controls and a consequent concern with inner motivation.
But I see the end of senior year as an opportunity for kids to figure out their inner motivation, post college acceptance.
Whatever his inner motivation, Mr. Edwards rocked his state's political establishment in 1998 by coming from nowhere to defeat Senator Lauch Faircloth, a conservative Democrat-turned-Republican, in his first stab at public office.
To rebuild and heal a person's inner motivation and drive, simplistic solutions like free money, meal handouts, and crowded shelters aren't enough to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty and reignite a person's sense of drive.
In the study, published in the journal Developmental Psychology, Israeli psychologist Guy Roth examined those positive and negative kinds of parenting attention, as well as a different style, called "autonomy support," where parents nurture and build their kids' inner motivation.
People's values are shifting towards self-expression and inner motivations in work (cultural driver) – open collaboration especially includes such motivators as self-actualisation, recreation, and fun [8].
He ponders on pain and violence, and also on the poetry and inner motivations of language.
Getz employs this flood of information to deduce an animal's inner motivations.
Colby's inner motivations were well hidden, perhaps even to Colby.
And the gut is the ethical compass, what guides your inner motivations.
