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self-motivated

British  

adjective

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

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times

They are self-motivated and for obvious reasons.

From Salon

The interior ministry and Tehran municipality have described them as "self-motivated forces that do not require a licence for their activities".

From BBC