Quotes About Drive

Somebodies are people who go for it with all they have.

I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it...

You must have... loathed what became of science in Germany." "I wanted nothing to do with this drive toward the impossible, these speculations. The Frankenstein myth. He, too, was German. But it is not just Germans, not simply the convenient excuse of a Hitler. That is why I tell you: if they want Jane Doe, they will take her. They always have.

bBecause he simply doesn't see his dreams in detail, the kind of details that drive a person to pack their shit, to move.

Have the courage of your desire.

The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don't see themselves as competitive.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

It's not what we do, so much as why we do it.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.