Quotes About Drive

And he worked himself, worked himself. He had made up his mind to be President, and he was demonic in his drive.

I have found Nice Guys to be prone to hidden, compulsive sexual behavior. I have developed a theory that states, the nicer the guy, the darker the sexual secrets. I find this to be consistently true. Sex is a basic human drive. Because most Nice Guys believe they are bad for being sexual, or believe that other people will think they are bad, sexual impulses have to be kept hidden from view.

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.

The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

no es la posesión sino el deseo lo que impulsa en secreto a la gente.

We are subject to forces from deep within us that drive our behavior and that operate below the level of our awareness.

Make yourself the flame and you will rise to the top. Since life is otherwise so full of unpleasantness and pleasure so scarce, you will be as indispensable as food and drink.

A person who has something to prove will move mountains for you.

Only some inner drive—pleasure, love—can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift us out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

People who succeed in life are rarely reflective. Their gaze is always on the future: that's why they succeed.

A man is more than one drive, one goal. No woman wants that in a man. It seems to me that men who spend time making something of themselves—rather than professing their devotion—are the ones who get somewhere. Both with women, and with life itself.

A reason or a purpose is a combination of wants and don't wants.

Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going.

Without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

Action always beats inaction.

1.?Find a reason greater than reality: the power of spirit

So how do you beat laziness? Once again, the answer is a little greed.

The word 'emotion' stands for 'energy in motion.