Quotes About Drive

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

You're always looking to go one step further and I'm an ambitious boy.

When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.

I was how I was in college because I had to be. I played angry. I played hard. I stepped on guys' chests, I hit a game-winner against UConn.

Jordan never stepped out on the court to have a good time. He stepped out there to establish that he was the best.

We spend our waking moments," he said at last, "trying to be successful, because we can't think of anything else to do.

Jane reached Western New York in the dark. It had been a seven-hour drive, but she had stopped for meals and breaks, and then had taken time to sleep for two hours at a rest stop. The urgency she had been feeling since the night the ancient woman had come to her in her dream seemed to burn in her until she had worn herself out. Now she was feeling stronger.

I ain't stopping for nobody. I got work to do and I'm gonna do it

Several prominent Saudis have told me that King Fahd at the time was nearing a decision to permit women to drive but was forced to back off by the furious public reaction

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Eva wanted things. She'd just forgotten how to get them.

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Tilly Bagshawe

Humiliation stimulates effort

an aggressively encouraged obsessive-compulsive

My philosophy was simple. I was trying to score when I got the football in my hand. There was no question about that.

There's no reason why I should retire.

There's no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don't do that. That's not what I do.

Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.