Quotes About Drive

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

If you're willing to do the work, you can have anything.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

I have to work, for my soul.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

That's why I work every day. Ev-er-y day. I want to knock people out.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

I would have to say that I'm haunted. I'm haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won't be satisfied unless I do great work.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!