Drive Quotes

When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.

Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

If you're not first, you're last.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

I always have to be writing.

I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, … Driven From Within.

I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.

People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic

I'm chasing perfection.

I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I didn't come here to be average.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse-when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped.

When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

I am exhausted if I don't work.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

What keeps me going is goals.

I wanna be the best, simple and plain

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

The world belongs to the energetic.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!

"With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than plodding through a normal existence. I'd always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all my energy into it.