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Quotes About Drive

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
~ Sheryl Adams
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
~ Charles A. Cerami
What is man but his passion?
~ Robert Penn Warren
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
~ George Hegel
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
~ Chris Evert
All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.
~ Nicolas de Chamfort
When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.
~ Pete Rose
Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
~ Ivern Ball
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
~ Johann von Goethe
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
~ Louis Auchincloss
Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
~ Ernest Holmes
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
~ Brendan Francis
Now, go take on the day!
~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
~ Charles Dickens
You can't get rich sitting on the bench.
~ Phil Linz
For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
~ Marcia Wieder
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
~ Joseph Joubert
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
~ Edmund Burke
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!
~ Henrik Ibsen
Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
~ David Starr Jordan