Quotes About Drive

You don't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

potency of motion

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

Give me some oomph, babe

on by whatever it is he's

But thinking is something different, altogether! Think always as if the hot hand of hell were grabbing for you. Think to the limit of your mind. Imagine, dream, hope, want things, drive yourself to goodness. Whatever you do...do it to the absolute best of your ability. Never take the easy way where thinking is concerned.

those men and women who were openly committed to some worthy goal achieved more than those who were reluctant to associate themselves with anything.

So You will be what you will to be;

All things at last yield to the silent, irresistible, all conquering energy of purpose.

You will be what you will to be;

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration:

You will rise as high as your greatest aspiration, or fall as low as your

The key to an enriched life is to have a burning desire. Wayne

When an idea has electricity in it you will have no choice but to move into action. And you will love it because it will set your heart on fire.

And: the only way anything ever gets done is when you make up your mind to do it.

What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results.

Your mission must meet one overriding criterion: it must be compelling. The best missions have an element of genuine passion in them. Don't set a mission like this: To make and sell athletic shoes on a worldwide basis. Set a mission like this: Crush Reebok.

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

In our research, we found no systematic pattern linking executive compensation to the process of companies going from good to great. Financial incentives don't—indeed cannot—cause companies to achieve greatness, for the simple reason that you cannot turn the wrong people into the right people with money. After all, if someone needs financial incentives to perform at a high level, he or she lacks the intense inner drive, the productive neurosis, required to do great things.