Quotes About Drive

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives.

He who has a strong enough why will find the how.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.

Incepto Ne Desistam!

At the very center of all human life is energy, psychic energy. It is the force of that energy that drives us, that surges continually up in us, that must repeatedly spend and renew itself in us, that must perpetually be reaching for something beyond itself in order to satisfy its own insatiable appetite.

I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with

before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

I was always driven on the basketball court. I always wanted to win every game I played in, sometimes too much. When you're out on the playground just playing, and you're scraping, fighting, and do whatever you can to win the game. When it's all over with, you're friends, and I'd think, 'Why did I get like that?' That's the way I've always been.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

But if you have to choose between someone with a staggering IQ and an elite education who's gliding along, and someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely determined to succeed, you'll always do better with the second person.

Life is about the decisions we make to live passionately or passively. Where's your passion?

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

You use what moves you.

With the chance I've been given, I'm gonna be driven as hell

The star impel but don't compel!

I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

Weekday morning routine: Take shower. Assemble perfect outfit. Apply makeup. Pull hair into bun. Secure with glitter pencils. Accept twenty-dollar bill from Dad. Pick up latte and creamy chocolate brioche from cafe. Drive to school the long way. Listen to sad music way too loud. Nab choice parking spot under tree.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Passion is a rough diamond: reduced to be more beautiful. (C'est diamant brute la passion: - Diminuera pour être plus beau.)

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.