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Quotes About Drive

She can be a whirlwind of tits and terror when she puts her mind to a purpose, can't she, sir?
~ Christopher Moore
I have a new name for pain. What's that? The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then.
~ Christopher Paolini
Nothing every happens unless you push it. Ed Rasala. 111
~ Tracy Kidder
Much of self-management comes down to motivation, and you can use the expectations that other people have of you as a powerful force to get you up off the proverbial couch.
~ Travis Bradberry
You should motivate yourself, NOW!
~ Vergil
Success belongs to those who have these two attributes: • An insatiable desire to learn • An unquenchable bias for action
~ Verne Harnish
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.
~ Victor Hugo
There occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should return. Drive it out better.
~ Victor Hugo
God help anyone who tries to stop her.
~ Kristin Hannah
All right, Claudia. Give us what you've got.
~ Kyle Mills
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.
~ lagerfeld karl ii
I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh.
~ Laini Taylor
Burn like a bonfire in whatever you do
~ Lamb
Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
~ Lance Armstrong
drive like hell was chasing you.
~ Cassandra Clare
Focus and move forward.
~ Catherine Burr
I can't stop," the shark rasped. "If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
~ Cathy Hopkins
You have to go for it. For the rest of us.
~ Cathy Hopkins
But every time I had the opportunity, I lacked the will.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
~ Germaine Greer
Be the flame, not the moth.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I want to be the best in whatever I do.
~ Gilbert Arenas