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Quotes About Drive

Dobias taught his players the line famously attributed to legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi: "I taught them that winning wasn't everything, it was the only thing," Dobias said. "Donald picked right up on this. He would tell his teammates, 'We're out here for a purpose. To win.' He always had to be number one, in everything. He was a conniver even then. A real pain in the ass. He would do anything to win
~ Unknown
1. Balance 2. Momentum 3. Steady swing center 4. Relaxed arms 5. Rhythm
~ Unknown
Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you'll feel motivated; sometimes you won't. But it's not your motivation that will produce results — it's your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don't feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.
~ Michael Moss
Do what you love, and you will love what you do. Knowing what you want is the key to the growth and development of persistence. Knowing what you want will allow you to form definiteness of purpose. Some call this a "made up mind". It's hard to stop a person with a "made up mind". Make up your mind and decide what you want, and you will be persistent.
~ Michael Moss
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
~ Michael Phelps
Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
~ Michael Rapaport
Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style
~ Michael Schumacher
I don't plan. Anyone in my way can either step aside or I will step over them.
~ Michael Scott
Forget about weak or strong, aggressive or passive. There are no passive characters, there are no weak ones. There is winning and there is losing, but every actor must fight for something he wants and needs. If you are concerned about getting what you need, then you will never let preconceived judgments get in your way.
~ Michael Shurtleff
If you're comfortable you're doing something wrong - you have to be in it for the heart.
~ Unknown
lack of discipline, focus, purpose.
~ Michael Wolff
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Una vida volcada hacia una meta deja poco sitio para el recuerdo
~ Michel Houellebecq
Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.
~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.
~ Michelle Sagara
I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
~ Mick Jagger
After curiosity, this quality of concentrated attention is what creative individuals mention most often as having set them apart in college from their peers. Without this quality, they could not have sustained the hard work, the 'perspiration.' Curiosity and drive are in many ways the yin and the yang that need to be combined in order to achieve something new.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We often call the manifestation of intentionality by other names, such as instinct, need, drive, or desire.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
~ Mike Ditka
How do you know when you are too drunk to drive? When you swerve to miss a tree then realize it was your air-freshener.
~ Unknown
Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.
~ Mike Rowe
I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
~ Mike Tyson
No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.
~ Mikhail Prokhorov