self-motivated

adjective

1. motivitated or driven by oneself or one's own desires, without any external agency

Example Sentences

Baker is an artist and a professor, and in much of her life, “I have to be really self-motivated,” she says.

From Slate

That person sounded like the eccentric uncle of Clayton Kershaw, the famously self-motivated Dodgers left-hander.

From Los Angeles Times

Created in the spirit of the state’s Wine Road and Cheese Trail, which provide self-motivated visitors with a rough DIY points-of-interest itinerary, the Cannabis Trail offers special plaques that highlight some of the people, places and seminal moments in the history of the marijuana movement.

From Los Angeles Times

Created in the spirit of the state’s Wine Road and Cheese Trail that provide self-motivated visitors with a rough DIY points-of-interest itinerary, the Cannabis Trail highlights some of the people, places and seminal moments in the history of the marijuana movement with special plaques.

From Los Angeles Times

“Our guys,” Roberts said, “are very self-motivated.”

From Los Angeles Times