Quotes About Drive

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

New York Times

This time I am on a mission of no mercy.

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.

I'd rather burn out than rust.

Neil Young David Briggs

Maybe that was why Anna admired people with passion. A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell so redolent with nostalgia a pleasant ache warmed her bones and she was nagged with the sense of a loss she could not remember.

High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods.

When you know what you want and when you want it, you can always find a way to make it happen.

THE BUS GOING

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Work occupied Napoleon entirely. He neither rested by day nor by night,

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

I'm often called obsessive. I don't think I am ... but I agree that when I decide to go in one direction I really go in that direction.

She got in her car and drove off. A lot of life is like that.

Only a few, determined individuals possess the resolve and focus to become the best at anything; and I wanted to be one of them.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

To high-drive labs and boarder collies, fetch is often more than just a game; it's their job, a dead serious business.

In your business and personal life, think of those who are dominant. What do they all have in common? Do you have it in you to be like them?

When I see something I desire, I take it. When it is out of my reach, I plan, meticulously, how I may obtain it. And when there is a trophy that everyone claims is unreachable, it only makes me want it more. And I achieve it.

It is not what we do that is important. It is why we do it.