Definition of Incentive

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Incentive

Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.

Serving to kindle or set on fire.

That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.

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Incentive Quotations

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
Linus Torvalds

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.
Cristiano Ronaldo

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
Major Owens

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
Natan Sharansky

Incentive Translations

incentive in French is stimulus
incentive in German is Anreiz {m}
incentive in Norwegian is incitament, ansporende, oppmuntring
incentive in Spanish is estimulo, incentivo
incentive in Swedish is motivation

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