Quotes About Drive

As [Sonia] Sotomayor wrote in her autobiography, once she set herself on the path of a legal career, 'I saw no reason to stint on ambition.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.

I want you, and I'm not the kind of guy to sit back and wait for good things to come to me.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

To follow, without halt, one aim There's the secret of success.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.' Amelia Earhart

let's do something cheerful all your designs are about captivity, it depresses me. Geryon watched the top of Herakles' head and felt his limits returning. Nothing to say. He looked at this fact in mild surprise. Once in childhood his ice cream had been eaten by a dog. Just an empty con in a small dramatic red fist. Herakles stood up. No? Let's go then. On the way home they tried "Joy To The World" but were too tired. It seemed a long drive.

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life.

Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

It's a competitive sport, a competitive nature, we're all professionals.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

My dad programmed me to be aggressive as a young player. He always told me to go to the rim. Live in the paint.

I am constantly hungry for growth and that's what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn't drive me.

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.