Quotes About Drive

You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.

Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.

I want to get in there and jump in the stands and dive for every loose ball.

I am no longer 20 or 21 years old, so I cannot afford to sit around waiting for my chance. I am 29 years old, and I want to play, play, and play. I am not crazy; I don't want to sit in the stands.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

A man can't just sit around.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.