Quotes About Drive

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

To spur a willing horse.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

The natural man has only two primal passions - to get and beget.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The real difference between men is energy.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.