Quotes About Drive

Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.

Balance has an eternal enemy, and its name is ambition.

It is far too easy to see you as a knot-browed barbarian, Toblakai. No, the drive to create is something other, isn't it? Have you an answer?' He shrugged. 'If one exists, it will only be found in the search – and searching is at creation's heart, Chosen One.

Steven Erikson

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

He had no intention whatsoever of sleeping in that house. Why, people could probably drive right up to it!

The great civil rights leader Howard Thurman once said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.

Her anger was the fuel she used to keep going.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

He burned with vitality, and an energy that needed release in activity.

Many dark rituals have been conducted to drive you along your path.

He wanted to suceed in life, at whatever cost.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it.

it is said that whatever a man desires he wills, and whatever he wills he acts. Thus

If they say no, do it. And if it feels good, then do it till you drop.

Writing is born out of passion and desire, but it is bred, brought up, in obsession and compulsion. Feed your drive to persist. Damn your fears. Claim your writing as your own,

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Trent Seven wouldn't have let me even go to a try-out wearing socks.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

Even though I thought of myself as soft and squishy, I always had this great will and focus and was just so driven.

The most talented investors are animals solely focused on winning.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.