The aim of the research is to examine the reasons and motives for enrolling in teacher training and the motivation for performing the teaching profession among students of teacher training in Zadar and teacher training in Prague. I want to examine what reasons and motives are more present in the students of these two studies and whether there are differences between students with regard to the year of study and place of study. Given the aim of the research and the results obtained, it has not been confirmed that graduate students in Zadar and Prague have more pronounced extrinsic-social and altruistic motivation than undergraduate students with the difference of intrinsic motivation where undergraduate students in Zadar show higher results. Then, the hypothesis that graduate students will have more pronounced teacher-mother motivation was not confirmed, while undergraduate students will have more pronounced non-professional and desperate motivation among Zadar students, while Prague students showed a statistically significant difference on the desperate motivation scale. Regarding the difference in the examined variables between students in Zadar and students in Prague, only a statistically significant difference in desperative motivation was obtained between students in Zadar and students in Prague, so students in Zadar achieved lower results on the scale of desperative motivation than students in Prague.