Quotes About Drive

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

This is my decade. Nothing is going to stop me.

I know what I want in life and I will do whatever it takes to get it.

There is no sense in having a goal if you aren't going to go after it.

You've Got to Be HUNGRY!

The average person goes to work and does just enough to keep from being fired, but an unstoppable person, a HUNGRY person, does more than they get paid for.

High Standards for High Achievement

No matter how far they might have strayed from their origins as they became institutionalized over time, the historical record clearly indicates that what we now call the drive for social justice was the idealistic underpinning of monotheistic faith.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

If interest promotes effort, effort in turn sustains interest.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

I think I'm competitive. Competition fuels me. The urge to win. I want to win; I want the ball in my hands when it really counts. I want to be the best I can be. I want to come in every day and do everything I can to be the best that I can.

As long as I've got that urge and that fight and fire inside of me I'll continue and records will come and records will be broken. But the day I don't feel that kind of stuff I'm happy to walk away.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.

It's the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.