Quotes About Drive

Desire inspires us to be our very best.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve but the will to labour.

if you really want it, you'll keep at it. Despite setbacks, interruptions, and sidetracks. No matter how long you get off course, you'll eventually return—if you really want what you say you do.

We do what we do because it serves some need.

if you really want it, you'll keep at it.

I believed that she would rather set the world on fire than lose.

A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.

Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.

Something like that. And

Where one cannot compete, one must aspire.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct of philanthropy

you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.

No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.

energy begets energy.

I'll tell you how to burn

You see how I go on—like so many strokes of a hammer. I cannot help it—I am impell'd, driven to it.

I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.