Quotes of Driven - somelinesforyou

“ To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have. ”

- Dan Marino

“ I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ”

- Geoffrey Beene

“ I'm as pure as the driven slush. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ People are more easily led than driven. ”

- David Harold Fink

“ The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. ”

- Martin Luther

“ My heart is pure as the driven slush. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ”

- George Hyman Rickover

“ Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. ”

- Nancy Lopez

“ The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. ”

- Adam Smith

“ Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it. ”

- William Frederick Book

“ A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law. ”

- Sutrakritanga

“ An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. ”

- William Faulkner

“ As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. ”

- Sri Sarada Devi

“ Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ”

- Richard H. Dana

“ Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ”

- James Baldwin

“ Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day. ”

- George Eliot

“ Exceed expectations. We are not driven to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”

- Bishop Gore

“ Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. ”

- Hyman G. Rickover

“ Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. ”

- Barbara Streisand

“ I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. ”

- Sam Walton

“ I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business. ”

- B.C. Forbes

“ Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. ”

- Edward de Bono

“ Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. ”

- Richard Whately
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