"motivating drive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a strong eagerness or enthusiasm for a certain activity or goal. For example, "His strong motivating drive to become a successful entrepreneur led him to start several businesses."
"The Olympic movement has come to mean so much to me, and that's been a massive motivating drive for many years now.
Mr. Hughes's essential motivating drive may have been expressed best in his own words about Goya, who he said haunted him in the months when he was recovering from the crash.
As before, Kashmir was the motivating drive for the anti-India militants.
This argument goes on to suggest that maintaining a 'frail balance' with medical, social and psychological support will be the motivating drive for clinicians who might otherwise adopt a stance of therapeutic nihilism.
Or someone who can motivate, drive and even transform a 200-person sales force below him?
Often the only people who don't recognise burnout are those who are exhibiting all of the symptoms, because highly motivated, driven, high-functioning, ambitious people can have great difficulty believing they are breakable.
They are motivated, driven, in many cases by a relentless spiritual passion determined to bring war to an end.
My sense had changed as we got closer; what we're seeing here is a guy who is motivated, driven, not the demagogue with another side, drinking, carousing.
We take these engaged, motivated, driven, and passionate employees, put them through the ringer, and then our organizations spit out these disengaged and disenchanted people.
Alan and Lisa Anderson, both nurses, said their belief that life begins at conception motivated them to drive eight hours from Massachusetts for the march.
I cut my teeth in a global London PR agency, under two incredibly talented, motivating, driven male bosses.
