170 Drive And Passion Quotes

Following is our list of drive and passion quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about motivation and drive.

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Famous Drive And Passion Quotes

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people. — Debbie Allen

Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. — Bette Davis

You have to really believe in what you’re doing and be passionate about it. Passion is what drives you, especially in the face of adversity. — Glen Bell

Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive. - Stephen Curry

Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive. — Stephen Curry

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word. — Chris Voss

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. — Dwayne Johnson

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. — Eugene W. Smith

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. — W. Eugene Smith

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable. — Robert Kiyosaki

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed — Pat Cash

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it. — Neil Simon

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. - Oprah Winfrey

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. — Oprah Winfrey

Short Drive And Passion Quotes

  • You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best. — A. R. Rahman
  • If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. — Benjamin Franklin
  • Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. — Denis Waitley
  • Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination. — William F. Longgood
  • You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive. — Mac Anderson
  • Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. — Edmund Burke
  • To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity. — Donald Trump
  • You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. — Juan Manuel Fangio
  • One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. — E. M. Forster
  • The passion has got to be greater than the problem. — Gary Brecka

Drive And Passion Image Quotes

Drive and passion quote I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

What Is Passion Quotes

Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats. — Alex Morgan

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. — Oprah Winfrey

Drive and passion quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. — Emilie du Chatelet

Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. — Stephen Curry

If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. — T. D. Jakes

Drive and passion quote Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries — Ban Ki-moon

Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and energy to it as you possibly can. Bring your full attention, your full presence, the Godlike quality that each of us has within, to every task in your day. — Marie Forleo

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Motivation And Drive Quotes

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump

Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable. — April Ross

Drive and passion quote I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. — Tony Robbins

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. — Calvin Coolidge

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand - Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi

I’m a Lamborghini, you’re a Volvo. You’re slow as hell, and I’m so damn fast. — KSI

I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought. — Arthur Blank

I will drive reform in my mission to get the United Kingdom working, building and growing. — Liz Truss

Passion And Desire Quotes

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. — Kurt Hahn

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. — John Milton

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason — Hugo Grotius

Drive and passion quote You don't follow your passion. You take it with you.
You don't follow your passion. You take it with you.

Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook. — Thomas Keller

Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good. — Marquis de Lafayette

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). — Milan Kundera

Drive and passion quote Passion is the art of suffering for what you love; instead of settling for what you don't.
Passion is the art of suffering for what you love; instead of settling for what you don't.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland

We were born to run; we were born because we run. - Christopher McDougall

We were born to run; we were born because we run. — Christopher McDougall

What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart. — Terry Tempest Williams

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer. — Mikhail Lermontov

Love And Passion Quotes

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion. — Hildegard of Bingen

Drive and passion quote Follow your passion; it will lead you to your purpose.
Follow your passion; it will lead you to your purpose.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life. — Omar Khayyam

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever. — Sam Walton

Drive and passion quote Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the pati
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion. — Giambattista Bodoni

If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love. — Ariana Grande

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work. — Lewis Grizzard

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul. — Joey Ramone

Drive And Determination Quotes

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. - Isabel Allende

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. — Isabel Allende

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. — Vince Lombardi

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists. — Alexander Graham Bell

Drive and passion quote Straight roads do not make skillful drivers
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost. — Roger Dawson

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive. — Sophie Kinsella

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer

Drive and passion quote Find your purpose, your passion, your unique place in the world... and fight for it.
Find your purpose, your passion, your unique place in the world... and fight for it.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives. — Daniel H. Pink

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you. — Michael Phelps

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Calvin Coolidge

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. — Paul J. Meyer

Talent And Passion Quotes

What’s most important? Is it talent, passion, intensity, or purpose? I would say purpose, because it’s the foundation of consistency. And consistency — as unsexy as it may be — differentiates success from failure and ultimately good from great. — Rich Roll

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. — Sheryl Sandberg

When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions. — Erwin McManus

Drive and passion quote Teaching respect takes responsibility. Being respectful takes courage. Showing respect takes passion
Teaching respect takes responsibility. Being respectful takes courage. Showing respect takes passion.

It is an honor to serve our country, I am energized by the shared passion of the President and the American people and I am humbled by the opportunity to join this very talented team. — Jared Kushner

I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary. — Lauren Fleshman

When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code. — Stephen Covey

Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. — Wayne Dyer

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God. — George Lois

I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose, which I embrace without delay. I focus only on today with respect to my goals, trusting that all of my tomorrows will work out well. — Doreen Virtue

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose. — Stephen Covey

Life And Passion Quotes

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. — T. D. Jakes

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again. — Greg Plitt

Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well. — Sayyid Qutb

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci

Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it. — David Attenborough

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. — John Piper

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. — Ivan Pavlov

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life. — Michelangelo

The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful. — Buddha

Purpose And Passion Quotes

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession. — Gabrielle Bernstein

The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image. — Peter Lik

Live life with intention, purpose, and passion. — Wim Hof

Do what you love; love those you care about; give service to others; and know that you’re on the right path. — Rich Roll

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love. — Steve Pavlina

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes. — Joseph Cook

I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time. — Joshua Harris

I can't envision a world where I'm not making YouTube videos. In a perfect world, I live and breathe this, working 12- to 15-hour days until I die. — MrBeast

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. — Eric Hoffer

Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion. — Pele

Passion For Work Quotes

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion. — Simon Sinek

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom. — Bell Hooks

I have more money than I need. I don’t need to work for a living. I do this because I love what I do. — Bill Ackman

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now. — William Kempe

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. - Steve Jobs

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out. — Mark Zuckerberg

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure. — Virat Kohli

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous. — Bob Black

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it. — Ernie Banks

Drive And Success Quotes

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent. — Bill Gates

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream. — Tommy Hilfiger

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. — Henry Kravis

Athletic success is the result of knowing what to do, the willingness to do it, and the drive to continually improve at it. — Tim Grover

The key to content marketing success is creating lots of useful, relevant, and authoritative content, the objective of which is to drive people to your website. — Brian Clark

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. — Colin Davis

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. — Guy Kawasaki

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day. — Billy Connolly

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward. — Shawn Achor

There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma. — Drew Brees

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. — John Welch

Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down. — Jon Krakauer

The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good. Whoever does not have the fear of God is open to diabolical falls. — Ephrem the Syrian

Let there always be a preponderance of mercy with you, even though you don't feel such mercy in yourself, as God has for the world ... A cruel and merciless heart is never purified. A merciful man is the doctor of his own soul, because as it were a by a strong wind from is heart he drives out the darkness of the passions. — Isaac of Nineveh

Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?' — Les Brown

Don't confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It's a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It's the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times. — Randy Komisar

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende

Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews. — Jeremy Collier

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less. — Martha Graham

Social entrepreneurs come from all levels of society and from communities in nearly every country of the world. They all share the same underlying drive and passion to see their ideas through. Many of them have had a huge effect on the world, yet most people have not even heard of them - a trend we hope to change! — Jeffrey Skoll

I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do. — Jennifer Lopez

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away. — Humphry Davy

In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre. — Brassai

Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy, but they are more concerned with meaning and fulfillment. The drive to acquire money and power is a behavior that drains people of their passion and emotional connection to others. — Judith Orloff

Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world. — Amy Poehler

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover. — Thomas Hardy

Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart. — Vita Sackville-West

Working with passion is an engine that is unbelievable. A person with drive and passion does three times the job of another person. But it is not so much the quantity of the job; that is not the point. The point is that they draw crowds; they have followers; they push, and lead, and so achieve much more. — Dov Seidman

Passion--it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it. — Mac Anderson

It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting. — Kaya Scodelario

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it. — Russell James

I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win! — Ashanti

All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion. — Travis Scott

Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold. — Howard Schultz

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. — Christopher Dawson

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away. — David Bowie

I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking. — Wallace Shawn

Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you believe in it and you do it as a passion that drives you, and it sustains you during those lean times. — Michael C. McMillen

I love having real conversations with entrepreneurs who have built their companies from the ground up, with nothing but their own drive, passion, and courage, and I'm constantly learning new things as I hear each one's unique journey. — Jessica Jackley

When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that drives me is trying to make them understand that they have to share. So, my art reflects that; the whole reason I do what I do reflects that. — Chuck D

When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me. — Aeriel Miranda

Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus. — Amanda Schull

We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise. — George W. Bush

The passion is my favorite part of the city [Philadelphia]. You go from 'we love you' to 'we hate you' back to 'you walk on water.' You're driving, and somebody might wave or somebody might flip you off. — Jim Thome

Don't rely on the money to drive you. Allow the passion to drive you and allow people to come into your life that love you the most and (who want to) enjoy that journey with you. — Drew Waters

I try to learn something from every character I take on. I try to better myself personally from it and Red allowed me to go ahead and accept what I did. Even though I had passion driving me, I still felt a little guilty that I gave up all the businesses in the pursuit of happiness. — Drew Waters

Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am. — Aliko Dangote

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive. — Viola Davis

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