Quotes About Drive

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

A core part of my story is that I always wanted more and I will never settle for anything less."

I see the kind of determination you only recognize if you've felt it yourself. Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.

Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.

She played the game the way that it was meant to be played?as if her life depended on it. And she seemed driven by some need, or struggle, or fundamental resolve, that preceded the basketball and made it possible..

Love me some fishing after drive on the gravel road wake up at crack of dawn that's my country roots

You can have excuses or success—but not both.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

that a highly developed purpose and the will to live are among the prime raw materials of human existence. I became convinced that these materials may well represent the most potent force within human reach.

No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

a sweet and powerful Positive obsession

I'm a fifty-three year old writer who can remember being a ten-year old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year old writer. I am also comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of Seattle - a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous.

I'm also comfortably asocial--a hermit in the middle of Seattle--a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.