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Quotes About Drive

Purpose is the quality we chose to shape our lives around.
~ Richard J. Leider
The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.
~ Holt McCallany
I like the way you hustle man.
~ Joe Teti
I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.
~ John Legend
Donald Trump is man of action.
~ Kellyanne Conway
Obsession is a young man's game.
~ Michael Caine
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
~ Thomas Carlyle
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
~ Thomas Carlyle
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
~ William Hazlitt
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
~ William Shakespeare
Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.
~ V. S. Pritchett
A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.
~ Albert M. Greenfield
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.
~ Joel Achenbach
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
~ John Webster
A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
~ E. W. Scripps
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
~ Felix Dennis
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.
~ Francis William Newman
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine
~ Napoleon Hill
The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.
~ Napoleon Hill