Quotes About Drive

You don't have to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to want more than just having a job and muddling through life. I want you to find a passion you believe in strongly enough to risk humiliation and rejection.

You'll see the "going big" theme running through everything I talk about in this section, as well as the rest of the book. You may be just

AMBITION IS NEVER content, even at the summit of greatness," Napoleon declared.

New York was for people too hungry for life to be anywhere else.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

We do things without knowing entirely why, just because our heart tells us that we must" -Theo

Passion is the genesis of genius.

One more lap, Denny! One more lap! Faster!

Get busy mother f---er!

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.

A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions.

purpose-driven priority.

We each have passions and skills, but you'll see extraordinarily successful people with one intense emotion or one learned ability that shines through, defining them or driving them more than anything else.

Tem de ser determinado. Lute pela única coisa que decidiu conquistar.

Viva como um selo postal – cole-se num único objetivo até alcançá-lo." Josh

High achievement and extraordinary results require big energy. The trick is learning how to get it and keep it.

it is just time to "shut up, get up, and giddy up.

Big thoughts go nowhere without bold action.

Without intentionally protecting it every day, we allow ourselves to go from a will and a way to no will and no way. If success is what were after, this won't work.

Hanging out with people who seek success will strengthen your motivation and positively push your performance.

Nothing stands between us and success but our will to win.

You can't buy motivation. You can't obtain it from someone else. "Motivation is something nobody else can give you," Joe DiMaggio said. "Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you, and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

We don't need to push ourselves toward a goal when we're drawn toward our calling. That is the purpose of purpose.