A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
I found people that were willing to push me. I was like, 'These are my goals. I need you to get me here.' I don't need any excuses. I won't make any excuses. I'm over making excuses.
I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.
I'm very driven, and I play with a lot of passion. So sometimes I'm a little too amped up because I love playing football and I'm very passionate about this game and playing for my teammates.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance.
I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.
Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.
I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.
Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.
I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.
Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.
Everything that I do is with a purpose and intent of wanting to make a difference.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
I would like to think that during my time at Stoke - and other clubs I was at - I was always a manager that wanted to play in the right way, with purpose, with drive, and to try to dictate to the opposition if you could.
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.
