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Character traits: drive

Ambition, energy, focus, and how a character pursues goals.

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  1. 1. Able
  2. 2. Absent-minded
  3. 3. Accomplished
  4. 4. Active
  5. 5. Adaptable
  6. 6. Adventurous
  7. 7. Agile
  8. 8. Aimless
  9. 9. Alert
  10. 10. Always Active
  11. 11. Ambitious
  12. 12. Analytical
  13. 13. Anticipative
  14. 14. Artful
  15. 15. Artistic
  16. 16. Ascetic
  17. 17. Aspiring
  18. 18. Audacious
  19. 19. Balanced
  20. 20. Big-thinking
  21. 21. Bold
  22. 22. Brainy
  23. 23. Brave
  24. 24. Bright
  25. 25. Brilliant
  26. 26. Businesslike
  27. 27. Busy
  28. 28. Calculated
  29. 29. Capable
  30. 30. Careful
  31. 31. Careless
  32. 32. Cautious
  33. 33. Changeable
  34. 34. Chaotic
  35. 35. Clever
  36. 36. Committed
  37. 37. Competent
  38. 38. Competitive
  39. 39. Complacent
  40. 40. Conscientious
  41. 41. Conservative
  42. 42. Consistent
  43. 43. Contemplative
  44. 44. Controlling
  45. 45. Courageous
  46. 46. Creative
  47. 47. Crebral
  48. 48. Curious
  49. 49. Daring
  50. 50. Dauntless
  51. 51. Decisive
  52. 52. Dedicated
  53. 53. Deliberate
  54. 54. Dependable
  55. 55. Desperate
  56. 56. Detail-oriented
  57. 57. Determined
  58. 58. Dexterous
  59. 59. Diligent
  60. 60. Directed
  61. 61. Disciplined
  62. 62. Disorderly
  63. 63. Disorganised
  64. 64. Disorganized
  65. 65. Distinguished
  66. 66. Distractable
  67. 67. Distractible
  68. 68. Dreamer
  69. 69. Driving
  70. 70. Dynamic
  71. 71. Eager
  72. 72. Educated
  73. 73. Efficient
  74. 74. Energetic
  75. 75. Enterprising
  76. 76. Esthetic
  77. 77. Exacting
  78. 78. Excessive
  79. 79. Experimental
  80. 80. Expert
  81. 81. Extraordinary
  82. 82. Extravagant
  83. 83. Extreme
  84. 84. Fanatical
  85. 85. Fanciful
  86. 86. Farsighted
  87. 87. Fastidious
  88. 88. Fierce
  89. 89. Fighter
  90. 90. Finicky
  91. 91. Firm
  92. 92. Fit
  93. 93. Flexible
  94. 94. Focused
  95. 95. Foolish
  96. 96. Forgetful
  97. 97. Freewheeling
  98. 98. Frivolous
  99. 99. Frugal
  100. 100. Gifted
  101. 101. Gives Up Easily
  102. 102. Goal-oriented
  103. 103. Hard-working
  104. 104. Healthy
  105. 105. Hesitant
  106. 106. Huried
  107. 107. Idealistic
  108. 108. Imaginative
  109. 109. Immaculate
  110. 110. Impatient
  111. 111. Impractical
  112. 112. Imprudent
  113. 113. Impulsive
  114. 114. Inactive
  115. 115. Incisive
  116. 116. Incurious
  117. 117. Indecisive
  118. 118. Independent
  119. 119. Indiscriminate
  120. 120. Individualistic
  121. 121. Indolent
  122. 122. Industrious
  123. 123. Inefficient
  124. 124. Inert
  125. 125. Ingenious
  126. 126. Innovative
  127. 127. Inquisitive
  128. 128. Insistent
  129. 129. Inspiring
  130. 130. Intelligent
  131. 131. Intrepid
  132. 132. Introspective
  133. 133. Inventive
  134. 134. Judicious
  135. 135. Keen
  136. 136. Knowledgable
  137. 137. Knowledgeable
  138. 138. Lackadaisical
  139. 139. Lazy
  140. 140. Leader-like
  141. 141. Leaderly
  142. 142. Left-brain
  143. 143. Leisurely
  144. 144. Limited
  145. 145. Logical
  146. 146. Loves Challenge
  147. 147. Many-sided
  148. 148. Maticulous
  149. 149. Messy
  150. 150. Methodical
  151. 151. Meticulous
  152. 152. Money-minded
  153. 153. Motivated
  154. 154. Muddle-headed
  155. 155. Multi-leveled
  156. 156. Mystical
  157. 157. Neat
  158. 158. No Purpose
  159. 159. Noncompetitive
  160. 160. Nostalgic
  161. 161. Obstinate
  162. 162. Orderly
  163. 163. Organised
  164. 164. Organized
  165. 165. Original
  166. 166. Overimaginative
  167. 167. Painstaking
  168. 168. Particular
  169. 169. Passionate
  170. 170. Perfectionist
  171. 171. Perserverant
  172. 172. Persevering
  173. 173. Persistent
  174. 174. Picky
  175. 175. Pioneering
  176. 176. Planful
  177. 177. Plodding
  178. 178. Plucky
  179. 179. Power-hungry
  180. 180. Practical
  181. 181. Pragmatic
  182. 182. Precise
  183. 183. Predictable
  184. 184. Proactive
  185. 185. Procrastinating
  186. 186. Prodigious
  187. 187. Proficient
  188. 188. Protean
  189. 189. Prudent
  190. 190. Pruposeful
  191. 191. Punctual
  192. 192. Purposeful
  193. 193. Quick
  194. 194. Quick-witted
  195. 195. Reactive
  196. 196. Rebellious
  197. 197. Reckless
  198. 198. Regimental
  199. 199. Reliable
  200. 200. Resolute
  201. 201. Resourceful
  202. 202. Responsible
  203. 203. Restless
  204. 204. Rigid
  205. 205. Risk-taking
  206. 206. Ritualistic
  207. 207. Rugged
  208. 208. Scatter-brained
  209. 209. Scatty
  210. 210. Scholarly
  211. 211. Sedentary
  212. 212. Self-critical
  213. 213. Self-disciplined
  214. 214. Self-reliant
  215. 215. Self-sufficent
  216. 216. Sharp
  217. 217. Sharp-witted
  218. 218. Shiftless
  219. 219. Single-minded
  220. 220. Skillful
  221. 221. Sloppy
  222. 222. Slow
  223. 223. Small-thinking
  224. 224. Smart
  225. 225. Softheaded
  226. 226. Spendthrift
  227. 227. Spontaneous
  228. 228. Spry
  229. 229. Stealthy
  230. 230. Strategic
  231. 231. Street-smart
  232. 232. Strong
  233. 233. Strong-willed
  234. 234. Stubborn
  235. 235. Studious
  236. 236. Stupid
  237. 237. Sturdy
  238. 238. Successful
  239. 239. Systematic
  240. 240. Talented
  241. 241. Tardy
  242. 242. Tenacious
  243. 243. Thorough
  244. 244. Thoughtful
  245. 245. Thrifty
  246. 246. Tidy
  247. 247. Tireless
  248. 248. Unambitious
  249. 249. Unchanging
  250. 250. Uncoordinated
  251. 251. Uncreative
  252. 252. Undisciplined
  253. 253. Unimaginative
  254. 254. Unrealistic
  255. 255. Unreflective
  256. 256. Unself-critical
  257. 257. Unsuitable
  258. 258. Useful
  259. 259. Vacuous
  260. 260. Venturesome
  261. 261. Versatile
  262. 262. Visionary
  263. 263. Weak-willed
  264. 264. Well-read
  265. 265. Well-rounded
  266. 266. Wild
  267. 267. Willful
  268. 268. Wise
  269. 269. Wishful
  270. 270. Wishy-washy
  271. 271. Worldly
  272. 272. Zealous

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