Quotes About Drive

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies

What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.

The part of my soul that is driven to make stories is a fierce thing, like a ferret: long, sleek, incapable of sleep, it digs and bites through all I know of the world.

It's easier to make something happen when you're already in motion.

Barry Eisler

Intentions are not the same as motivations. The "intention" is what you want to accomplish; the "motivation" is the reason you want to accomplish it.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

and time to think. He drove

up the engines of all of them and began

Passive men wait for knowledge to come to them. Weak men assume what they need to know will seek them out. Men of great character and drive search out the knowledge they need.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. —Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age, "from The Essays; Or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness. When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Satisfied needs do not motivate.

He who has a 'why' can live with any 'what.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates.

Taking initiative means] recognizing our responsibility to make things happen

their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).

statement—and then to bring that sense of mission, of purpose, to your

Hasta que no hayamos elegido nuestras motivaciones, no podemos elegir vivir nuestra vida de verdad. Todo es fruto de los motivos y de la motivación, que constituyen las raíces de nuestros deseos más profundos.

I will be a self-starting individual who exercises initiative in accomplishing my life's goals.