Drive Quotes

“If the idea doesn’t drive us crazy and make us restless, it basically belongs to that cluster of ideas that keeps hovering in our mind sans any purpose.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Everyone has a purpose in life. Finding that purpose is the passion that drives us." Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow

“In ten years time will you look back at your past week and be glad how you chose to spend it?”
― Freequill

“Almost everyone has an inborn need to create; in most people this is thwarted and forgotten, and the drive is pushed into other activities that are less threatening, less difficult, and less rewarding. In some people, that need to create is transmuted into the need to destroy.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Monsters We Deserve

“This is it folks. Life. This ain't a rehearsal. Give it you're best shot!”
― Freequill

“her dream of becoming a nurse was no ordinary yearning : it was the product of a desire as richly and completely imagined as a novel or a poem. It recalled for him what it meant to be driven to better yourself, to lay claim to a wider world.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“You’ll blame your conditions, others will blame your decisions.”
― Freequill

“You are your biggest obstacle, but you are also the change that you seek.”
― Freequill

“Then it was only right that she do as her spirit told her, and let the struggle itself answer the question of which was the stronger: her will or her womanly nature.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“This is it folks. Life. This ain't a rehearsal. Give it your best shot!”
― Freequill

“Regret is a vehicle you choose to drive or leave behind on the hard shoulder of life.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Be great at what you do and make no apologies for your wins.”
― Marjory Sheba

“Many can find themselves in an awful paradox: afraid of death yet afraid of living.”
― Freequill

“One of the biggest obstacles to obtaining goals is not making a plan. If you really want to achieve something, write down a plan of attack right now.”
― Freequill

“If you design a compelling future, it’s easier to push yourself because your vision will pull you.”
― Freequill

“When the truth hurts, create a better truth.”
― Freequill

“If you could speak to yourself 5 years from now, what would your future self ask you to prioritize?”
― Freequill

“Oh my love
Look and see
The Sun rising from the river
Nature's miracle once more
Will light the world
But this light
Is not for those men
Still lost in
An old black shadow
Won't you help me to believe
That they will see
A day
A brighter day
When all the shadows
Will fade away
That day I'll cry
That I believe
That I believe

Oh my love
High above us
The Sun now
Embraces Nature
And from Nature we should learn
That all can start again
As the stars must fade away
To give a bright new day.”
― Riz Ortolani

“It's not about the how much power under the hood, it's about how you drive behind the wheels that's capable of...”
― Manning Maurice McCutchen, JR

“Windows of homes and office complexes left streaks of yellow in her peripheral vision as she sped past. Headlights glared and flickered from the opposite lane of the road, drivers warning her to stay on her side, to stop veering the pick-up, to stay awake, to stop at red lights.

She ignored them.

They did not understand that there were no signs on the freeway to help her as they helped them, no Ramp Exit sign navigating her with the words EXIT 3A: ANSWERS, 1/2 MILE. They did not understand that she talked to herself while she drove in order to set things straight just as much as to stay awake. They did not understand that the traffic lights were red with rage and not with warning. Brakes don't work along the road to Hell.”
― Angela Panayotopulos

“I have a friend with an incredibly demanding job that he doesn't particularly enjoy. But he puts up with it because he makes a lot of money, much more than he could make working for another company of doing something else. He has high blood pressure. His children get older every year.

He complains about the stresses of his life and asks for my advice. Quit your job, I tell him. Earn less money. Spend more time with your wife and kids. Be happier.

I can’t, he says. I have all these big deals in the works. Let me win those contracts, bag those bonuses. Next year I'll quit and slow down.

But when next year comes along, he tells me about the new deals and the new bonuses. Next year is always a year away.

Every year his salary grows. Every few years he moves into a bigger house and gets a new car. Is he happier?

Evidently not. Despite the larger salary and the bigger house and the nicer car, he's not content. “Just one more year”, he says, “then I’ll have enough”
― Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

“I want to be your Columbine,
And make your dreams mine.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“The only explanation that I can come up with to explain the passion that I have to do what I cannot is the existence of a God who can.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sweetheart, give me a place in your fears. I’ll make home and drive them away.”
― Nitya Prakash

“All the drive in the world is worthless if you are driving yourself off a cliff.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & How” of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“But if you really want something, you don’t punch it in the face. You stick with it until you stop wanting to hit it and start wanting to hug it, and then kiss it, and finally make sweet, sweet love to it that will leave you both in a shivering puddle of tears.

Until then, it’s absolutely fine to fake it ‘till you make it. Jump in with both feet. “Act as if.” Just remember you’ve got to actually put in the hours, and do the real, hard work of “becoming as if.”
― Aisha Tyler, Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation

“Research is like driving, as there are many different routes that all lead to the same destination.”
― Steven Magee

“I regard putting a sea level adapted human into a car and driving them to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea on a daily basis to be a form of workplace abuse.”
― Steven Magee

“There were times I would drive home after an extreme set of night shifts and have no recollection of the journey.”
― Steven Magee

“Procrastination is driven by a presumption of regret.”
― Rayvern White