Top 39 What Drives Us Quotes
#1. If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
Gena Showalter
#2. I always wonder what drives us as Artists.
Diana Krall
#4. Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there's hope and love in this world, there will always be the living.
Carrie Ryan
#5. (about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy!
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#6. Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.
Allan Boesak
#7. I think Curtis is finally getting his drive back, his passion for the game, ... I think he's starting to enjoy that competition again. That's what drives us all out here that feeling of being able to hit a good shot in a tough situation.
Jay Haas
#8. I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.
Ashley Greene
#10. Part of what drives us to explore and discover is the intangible: expanding our horizons, feeding our curiosity, finding all those unexpected things, and trying to answer those profound questions discussed in previous chapters, like how did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone?
Nancy Atkinson
#11. Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things, to discover, to challenge ourselves. Passion is and should always be the heart of courage.
Midori Komatsu
#12. So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what's around the next bend. And isn't that, in the end, what drives us?
Blake Crouch
#13. Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others.
Randy Pausch
#14. The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.
Riz Ahmed
#15. Passion is what makes the world go round. Passion is what drives us to be better than we are. Passion is what makes our emotions - whether love or hate or laughter - ignite and blaze into life.
Lisa Mangum
#16. We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
Barack Obama
#17. 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
#18. I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become ... This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.
David Malouf
#19. Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.
Bill Walton
#20. 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
#21. We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims.
Bill Frist
#22. We don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained.
John Barth
#23. The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.
Robert H. Schuller
#24. The technologically-aided destruction of old, mechanical professions drives us to higher-functioning tasks that tap more fully into what makes us human.
Winston Damarillo
#25. What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.
Paul Pearsall
#26. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.
Christopher Poindexter
#27. Things are perfect only in the eye of the beholder. It's the uniqueness that drives us. Life isn't about what is perfect for everybody else; it's about what is perfect for you.
A.E. Woodward
#28. The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
Debbie Ford
#29. What if death drives us insane? What if we survive, but it drives us insane? What then?
Stephen King
#30. It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.
Joshua Waitzkin
#31. What is it that drives us outward to the stars above and to the shores below? Is it the security of knowing what's there? Or is it the adventure of finding it?
Chris Hogan
#32. Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#33. I want the late-night drives, the sunset watching, the screaming, the yelling, and the crying. I know I'll definitely want the make-up sex that comes after all of the screaming and crying. I want the good, the bad, and the in-between. All of it is what's going to make us amazing together.
Gail McHugh
#34. To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
Ambrose
#35. I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
Rupert Friend
#36. What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe.
Gretel Ehrlich
#37. What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
Louie Schwartzberg
#38. What matters is not the features of our character or the drives and instincts per se, but rather the stand we take toward them. And the capacity to take such a stand is what makes us human beings.
Viktor E. Frankl
#39. Fear drives us to do many things in our lives. For me, the fear of losing a loved one, and all those terrifying thoughts of what it's like to be left behind and feel alone, drove me to conceive
Cecelia Ahern
