drive Quotes

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

"Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed."

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"Screw it, let's do it."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

"Rest at the end, not in the middle."

"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."

"If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it."

"Impatience with actions, patience with results."

"People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they’re doing something different than everyone else."

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

"Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset."

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthy goal."

"I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period."

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

"Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more."

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Ambition is the mainspring of a man."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"Ambition is the fuel that feeds the fire of success."

"Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes, but when you're driven, you're going to get it done regardless of how you feel."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

"The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and excellent."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."