Stay Relentlessly Driven Quotes
Talent gets passed every day by hunger. The man who wants it more, works longer, and refuses to cool off wins fights he was never favored to win. This Purpose path holds the greatest quotes ever spoken on drive, hunger, and work ethic. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“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.”
“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”
“It’s fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
“It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
“There is no substitute for victory.”
“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
“He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.”
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
“A will finds a way.”
“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
“When we’re determined to reach an objective, it’s the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us.”
“Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger.”
“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”
“Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I’ve wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.”
“Making it happen is a very difficult thing. And it demands, really, extraordinary energy, self-belief, and determination.”
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
“Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day, until you reach your goal.”
“Obstacles can’t stop you, problems can’t stop you, most of all other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”
“If you’re interested, you will do what is convenient; if you’re committed, you’ll do whatever it takes.”
“Where the determination is, the way can be found.”
“I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.”
“If you’re not afraid to fail, you don’t care enough about success.”
“Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.”
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
“Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else.”
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“A river cuts through rock not because of its power but its persistence.”
“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
“As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.”
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed.”
“Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle.”
“It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life, that’s persistence.”
“The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
“How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?”
“Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.”
“The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.”
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.”
“My only secret is that I never quit doing it.”
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
