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Drive Quotes

The push behind ambition, fear, and hard choices.

These drive quotes range from a stark wartime comparison of national resources devoted to weapons programs, to a personal drive built from insecurity rather than confidence, and a more forceful use of the word tied to conflict abroad. One quote closes with a simple call to drive out fear with anger. See Determination for the more motivational side of this theme.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Quotes by Agnes Macphail

Women and girls inspire me. They drive me.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

I think there's this idea that if we put up a play with all African-Americans or all Latinas, or even if we mix it up, then it won't really sell to a mainstream audience. At the end of the day,...

Quotes by Adrienne C. Moore

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes...

Quotes by Adora Svitak

Ambition Quotes

By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my...

Quotes by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.

Quotes by Adena Friedman

Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.

Quotes by Adam-Troy Castro

'Drive' is definitely an inspiration because it was a film that was able to use what would normally be considered cheesy, kind of bold, electronic music choice and pull it off in a mainstream way.

Quotes by Adam Wingard

I don't want to be Batman. Let Val Kilmer do it. I just want to be Uncle Batman. I have this whole 'warm relationship' plot in my mind. In the final scenes, the new Batmobile breaks down, the new Batman's...

Quotes by Adam West

Determination Quotes

The Batmobile wasn't a stickshift, and it was a challenge to drive, believe me.

Quotes by Adam West

Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going...

Quotes by Adam Ross

Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects - while Google's advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the...

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

I drove a brand new Lamborghini, the Huracan; it was great. We went on the Autobahn, and we got to drive on the Nurburgring.

Quotes by Adam Ferrara

If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

Quotes by Adam Ferrara

Driven Quotes

In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out...

Quotes by Adam Cohen

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Abraham Lincoln

My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.

Quotes by Abigail Washburn

When I was a little girl, I watched old movies maybe shot at Paramount Studios, and the fact that every day I get to drive onto the lot and shoot a show that sometimes takes place in the '40s, it's...

Quotes by Abigail Spencer

Driver Quotes

We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We...

Quotes by Abigail Johnson

Frequently Asked Questions

What different senses of "drive" appear in these quotes?
They range from a wartime national effort, to personal ambition described as "drive," to forcibly driving contractors out of a dangerous situation, to a poetic call to drive off fear with anger. For more on personal ambition, see our Ambition quotes.
Is there a quote comparing wartime scientific efforts between countries?
Yes — it explains that in America, "it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort," while in Germany the effort was far smaller.
Is there a quote about drive being rooted in insecurity?
Yes. It says, "A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity." For more on pushing through self-doubt, check our Determination quotes.
Does one quote describe driving people away from danger?
Yes — it says, "The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified." For more on being driven by purpose, browse our Driven quotes.
Is there a quote about using drive to fight off fear?
Yes, it says, "Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." For more on taking charge of a situation, see our Driver quotes.

Browse Ambition or Driven for more on what pushes people forward.