Quotes About Drive

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

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

Do what makes your heart beat.

Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.

I don't mean to be indecisive," she said. "I just want to be sure." "Like I said, that would drive me crazy. I'm much too busy to wait around on someone like you, being sure." "Don't you ever make a mistake?" "Sure I do, but I'd rather redo a mistake than spend days on end waffling. Lord. I do hate waffling.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

Peux ce que veux. Allons-y.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

People who walk slow ain't got nowhere to go.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there.

Laziness is almost as compelling as life.

You make it sound mad," Sylvie said. "As if it drives you crazy.

I've made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up FIRMLY.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting

I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.

takes a lot of spunk to spin gold from heartache, Mrs. Osgood. A lot of drive. Most of us can't do it. It's a mean world, Mrs. Osgood, mean and spiteful.

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Working really hard is what successful people do

the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

The people at the top don't just work harder. They work much, much harder.

And why? Because

If you want to be a great New York lawyer, it is an advantage to be an outsider, and it is an advantage to have parents who did meaningful work, and, better still, it is an advantage to have been born in the early 1930s. But if you have all three advantages -- on top of a good dose of ingenuity and drive -- then that's an unstoppable combination. That's like being a hockey player born on January 1.