If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B. C. Forbes
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
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
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. — Albert Einstein
What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word. — Chris Voss
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline. — Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Drive your business, let not your business drive you. — Benjamin Franklin
I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it. — David Sinclair
Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable. — Robert Kiyosaki
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. — Benjamin Franklin
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
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
It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. — Rabindranath Tagore
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. — Denis Waitley
One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life. — Richard DeVos
Short Driven Quotes
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. — Thomas Hobbes
Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. — John the Apostle
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration. — Cornel West
In a world driven by disruption, make sure you're on the right side of change. — Cathie Wood
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. — Desiderius Erasmus
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. — Todd Gitlin
The success driven mentality drives you to unhappiness. — Naval Ravikant
What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. — Wally Pfister
Driven Image Quotes
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven toward these things with an irresistible momentum.
Self Driven Quotes
Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. — Nayef Al-Rodhan
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself. — Dallas Willard
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. — Nathaniel Branden
I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence. — Simon Conway Morris
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. — Gordon Ramsay
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. — Virginia Woolf
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences. — Gary Becker
Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain. — Simon Sinek
We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding. — Calvin Miller
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. — Bill Hybels
I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career. — Richard O'Brien
In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them. — E. O. Wilson
It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women. — Jordan Peterson
I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV - your life is crazy. But that's your career, not you. — Shawn Mendes
A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere. — Clarence Major
I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it. — Ian Astbury
When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude. — Jenson Button
The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies. — Mark Canton
I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable. — Mickey Sumner
Goal Driven Quotes
One of my big goals professionally is to get more leaders to stop acting on intuition and experience and instead be data-driven. — Adam Grant
You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life. — George Foreman
Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive. — Robert Herjavec
You're much more likely to reach your goals if they're your goals, speaking to your desires, rather than the desires of outside influences. Goals that are meaningful to you will keep you inspired and driven towards success. — Jillian Michaels
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results. — Paddy Ashdown
My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience. — Jim Gaffigan
The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world. — Rick Warren
You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals. — Sandra Cisneros
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal. — Frances Mayes
some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly. — Isak Dinesen
Purpose Driven Quotes
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time — Rick Warren
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. — Rick Warren
It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it. — W Mitchell
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act. — Rick Warren
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose. — Rick Warren
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you. — Rick Warren
You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity. — Rick Warren
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve. — Rick Warren
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern. — Joel Osteen
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. — Rick Warren
Being Driven Quotes
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days. — Jerry Falwell
Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Though the intensity may differ from person to person, you can be sure that everyone you meet is driven by two primal urges: the need to feel safe and secure, and the need to feel in control. If you satisfy those drives, you’re in the door. — Chris Voss
They have ruined our lives and driven down our wages tenfold. Therefore, we should not be surprised that they are leaving us 45 percent poor and 10 percent extreme poverty. — Javier Milei
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. — Sri Sarada Devi
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required. — Hyman Rickover
I find negativity is infectious and also very depressing. Choose friends who you admire and aspire to be like! Positive, driven and determined. — Martyn Ford
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. — J. G. Ballard
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. — Sarada Devi
Purpose Driven Life Quotes
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others. — Rick Warren
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears. — Rick Warren
Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts. — Rick Warren
Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it? — Zig Ziglar
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness. — Rick Warren
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time. — Rick Warren
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose. — Ayn Rand
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Don't waste your pain; use it to help others. — Rick Warren
Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary. — Rick Warren
Character-driven Quotes
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best. — Linwood Barclay
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. — Emily Watson
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends. — Benicio Del Toro
I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings. — Mark Pellegrino
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. — Jeffery Deaver
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. — Dean Koontz
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. — Lasse Hallstrom
Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. — George S. Patton
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart. — Bill Hicks
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. — Edward R. Murrow
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. — Adam Smith
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. — Hermann von Helmholtz
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. — Edward De Bono
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. — Mary Kay Blakely
A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast. — Genghis Khan
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. — Mary Blakely
This great honor recognizes the history of CRISPR and the collaborative story of harnessing it into a profoundly powerful engineering technology that gives new hope and possibility to our society. What started as a curiosity-driven, fundamental discovery project has now become the breakthrough strategy used by countless researchers working to help improve the human condition. I encourage continued support of fundamental science as well as public discourse about the ethical uses and responsible regulation of CRISPR technology. — Jennifer Doudna
In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other. — Jane Frances de Chantal
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. — Barbra Streisand
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther
How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions. — Chris Voss
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight! — Carson Mccullers
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories. — Robert J. Shiller
Accelerate the implementation of innovation-driven development strategies, accelerate the realisation of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance ... resolutely win the key core technology battles ... accelerate the construction of the world's important talent centre and innovation high evaluation, and strive to form a comparative advantage of international competition for talents. — Xi Jinping
I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. — Nicola Sturgeon
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation. — Balaji Srinivasan
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me. — Edward Hoagland
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind. — Dalai Lama
These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me. — Chris Noth
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. — Fredric Jameson
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of driven quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about driven to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of driven quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
