The phrase "proper motivation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the appropriate reasons or incentives for someone to take action or achieve a goal.
Example: "To succeed in this project, we need to ensure that everyone has proper motivation to contribute their best efforts."
Alternatives: "adequate motivation" or "suitable motivation."
I lacked the proper motivation.
"If I don't have the proper motivation, I shouldn't do it and take somebody's place away".
The lesson is that, given a hard deadline, sufficient resources and proper motivation, technological problems have technological solutions.
As demonstrated in Ohio and elsewhere, people with access to the machines, and the proper motivation, can change the election result.
This is the cable channel dedicated to the proposition that ordinary humans, with the proper motivation and instruction, can rewire a living room ceiling, install a gas fireplace by the outdoor pool or transform a boring bedroom into a "Parisian Retreat" for $230.
The second assumes that they really do want to work and require only proper motivation.
It builds on existing research on the growth mindset, the belief that intellectual abilities are not fixed attributes but can increase and develop in students when nurtured by proper motivations.
"Patriotic representatives," runners selected from the public at large, were vetted over a six month process to ensure "proper motivations" and political "appropriateness".
As noted above, both Shaftesbury and Hutcheson want to do justice to the idea that proper moral motivation is not the pursuit of pleasure, even disinterested pleasure, but rather an immediate response to the perception of moral value.
Kant criticized for their assumption of heteronomy all theories that located the ground of moral obligation or of proper moral motivation in such things as self-love, sympathy, and fear of divine punishment or hope for divine reward (G 4 441 44; CPrR 5 39 41).
Hume identifies such feelings as benevolence and generosity as proper moral motivations; Kant sees the motive of duty a motive that Hume usually views as a second best or fall back motive as uniquely expressing an agent's commitment to morality and thus as conveying a special moral worth to actions.
