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Quotes About Drive

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
~ Wale
These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!
~ John Brown
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
~ Warren G. Harding
Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.
~ Renzo Gracie
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
~ Jose Rizal
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.
~ Andrew Carnegie
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
~ Jules Verne
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
~ Sydney Smith
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
~ Napoleon Hill
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
~ Dick Van Dyke
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
~ Ayn Rand
Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Man, the feeling of the make is something that I can't put to words, it's the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, it's a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.
~ Jeremy Jones
That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.
~ Tyga
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
~ John Webster
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
~ Konrad Lorenz
The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.
~ Neal Stephenson
All change happens because one man wants something different.
~ Neal Stephenson
She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.
~ Neal Stephenson
I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
~ Ned Vizzini
I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. I'll tell you how, soldier. It's because you're not ambitious, you're just lazy
~ Ned Vizzini
A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.
~ Neil Peart