gave incentive (verb) motivate: stimulate, instigate
Sinonime: adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness
Antonime: depress,
disconcert,
discourage,
dissuade