Quotes About Drive

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

A wish is a desire without energy

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

To desire with one's very soul every second of every day to accomplish one's aim.

The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

One must desire something to be alive.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.