What makes you tick?

"to commit every nerve, every muscle, and every drop of sweat to a work, to a great task; to grow with the work, to become greater oneself in the struggle with one's betters - and then to be able to say at the end: I die, but there remains something that is more important than my life and will last longer than my body: my work."

[Morgenthau, H.J., (?) School Composition, "Was ich von meiner Zukunft erhoffe, und worauf sich diese Hoffnung gruendet", as cited in Frei, C. (2001). Hans J. Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography. (p. 80) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.]