Top 100 Driving Force Quotes
#1. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
David Soul
#2. Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.
Maurice Sendak
#3. The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
Amit Abraham
#4. I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt ...
George Kukla
#5. The orgasm is humanity's driving force. Time freezes and there isn't a feeling of loss, a void, a little death, but a reminder that of all earthly activity, none is more perfect.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.
Frederick Seitz
#7. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#8. Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
Monica Ali
#9. The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in ... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
Henning Mankell
#10. I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.
Frank Lampard
#11. Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly.
Balroop Singh
#12. We will do everything in our power to make sure cross-strait stability becomes the driving force for peace in the Asia-Pacific region.
Tsai Ing-wen
#13. The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.
Martin Berkeley
#14. An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke in man the slightest trace of that age-old animal power which drives the migrating bird across the sea. . . .
C. G. Jung
#15. We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.
Rick Falkvinge
#16. The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.
Clive James
#17. 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
Francis Ford Coppola
#18. In a phone interview in 1994, Celia Powell stressed two sentiments: music was her father's life; it was the driving force of his existence, in her opinion. And she thought the music industry had very much taken advantage of him.121
Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.
#19. The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#20. The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
Max Weber
#21. That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
Berkeley Breathed
#22. Human bipolarity was both the binding force and the driving energy for all human behavior, from sonnets to nuclear equations. If any being thinks that human psychologists exaggerate on this point, let it search Terran patent offices, libraries, and art galleries for creations of eunuchs.
Robert A. Heinlein
#23. It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
Susanna Kearsley
#24. All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That's why I can convert them so easily. Why
Frank Herbert
#25. I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter ... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.
Stuart Pearson Wright
#27. Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.
Louie Giglio
#28. One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.
Sakyong Mipham
#29. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse and the ox, he borrowed the carrying strength of water and the driving force of the wind, he quickened his fire by blowing, and his simple tools, pointed first with copper and then with iron, increased and varied
H.G.Wells
#30. The force driving the Israelis decisively out of their socialist past into the modern world of finance was the ingenuity of Netanyahu.
George Gilder
#31. I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.
Jack White
#32. The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior
Kenneth E. Boulding
#33. You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
Geraldine Brooks
#34. When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
Marjane Satrapi
#35. When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.
Rob Liano
#36. The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale
#38. Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope
Jacques Diouf
#39. am a creative being
A Being that You created
You have unselfishly given me talent
And I am here to showcase it
All in praise of You
You are the spirit within me
You are the driving force
I, Thank You
O, God
I, Thank You
Sandra Proto
#40. The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
#41. 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
#42. He beguiled me almost by surprise into doing wrong, then he got me accustomed to having bad thoughts which I had no will to resist - willpower being the only force capable of driving them back to the infernal darkness from which they emerged.
Marcel Proust
#43. Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.
Bauvard
#44. To be just, is not enough to refrain from injustice. Once must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self interest as the driving force of society.
Pedro Arrupe
#45. I think I can speak with a degree of authority ... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.
Terry Hayes
#46. Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.
Colleen Hanabusa
#47. If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
Anita Roddick
#48. Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.
Carlos Castaneda
#49. Sex is the greatest driving force on this planet. Christ, why are we living if we can't have a little fun? Sex is giving, and the more you give, the better lover you are.
Jack LaLanne
#50. My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
Tracy Austin
#51. it, but I knew that whatever driving force was
Karen White
#52. Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.
William J. Mann
#53. It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Albert Einstein
#54. Make the driving force in your life love.
Mehmet Oz
#55. Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.
Lemmy Kilmister
#56. Millie's car cornered like a beached whale, and the brakes required brute force to get them to - you know - stop. It explained a lot about my aunt's driving style. The
Joelle Charbonneau
#57. It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.
Robert Redford
#58. In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
Walt Disney
#59. Every bone in my body was crying out for rest, but I knew if I stopped, and perhaps slept, I would die. I had to keep going. It was strange, but the thirst which was killing me was also the driving force keeping me on this long, desperate march.
Marcus Luttrell
#60. For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.
Rocco Buttiglione
#61. If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.
Anita Roddick
#62. Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
Hugh Hefner
#63. 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
#64. Nothing in this world is a coincidence. Everything is Hitsuzen.
*Hitsuzen meaning inevitability, destiny, or fate, as being the driving force in the world
CLAMP
#65. Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.
Sigmund Freud
#66. I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.
Daniel Radcliffe
#67. Say no to the nagging fear and say yes to the powerful driving force that dwells in you and it's called a dream.
Euginia Herlihy
#68. One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.
Allen Dulles
#70. The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
#71. Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.
Francisco Franco
#72. I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.
James Hetfield
#73. Are You Driving With Your Eyes Open? Or Are You like Using The Force?
Eddie Murphy
#74. There is only one driving force: The desire.
Aristotle.
#75. It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
Morgan Freeman
#76. Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.
Deirdre Madden
#77. The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
Anthony Jeselnik
#78. When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.
Ishe Smith
#79. The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.
Maximilian Bircher-Benner
#80. Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
Eric Maisel
#81. Decoding (a child's difficult) behavior is like looking at a rain wrapped tornado crossing the road in front of you. You see the fury of rain, hail, wind and debris, but you have to look real hard to see the driving force behind it.
Deborah A. Beasley
#82. I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.
Tom Hardy
#83. The way you think is the driving force that fashions your world thereby governing the kind of life that you live.
Steven Redhead
#84. I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.
Neill Blomkamp
#85. Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.
Payne Stewart
#86. For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
#87. Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us.
The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.
Jean Cocteau
#88. My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.
Joyce Banda
#89. Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#90. Stress is no longer your driving force, it is your sworn enemy. Meditate daily before sunrise
Joanne Sohn
#91. When fear penetrates all aspects of culture and becomes a dominant driving force, the culture freezes in fixed attitudes of attack and defense, all cultural life suffers, and the Self nearly dies in the cold.
Anonymous
#92. In the face of all this, it is your culture that will be the driving force to create the resiliency, toughness, passion, and attitude to overcome the obstacles in your way.
Jon Gordon
#93. Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
Alan D. Eames
#94. In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.
Rick Scarborough
#95. Writing has never been a driving force within me.
Jeffrey Combs
#96. I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.
Thierry Henry
#97. 'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.
Tony Robbins
#98. Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.
Napoleon Hill
#99. If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked?
Henny Youngman
#100. There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.
Kelley Armstrong
