Best Driven Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I think that most people who know me would say that I'm an intense individual and very driven to win and enjoy the competition aspect of the game.”

“I'm not driven by the spotlight and I'm not that outgoing.”

“I can tell you what I'm driven by. I'm driven by what's in Israel's interest.”

“I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.”

“You know if you have driven well or not, but sometimes because of the car or package you simply cannot do any more.”

“I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.”

“I don't like half-volleys being driven for four.”

“I am a very committed Christian. I think my values and everything I do is driven by that.”

“If there's no overlap between the interests of the people you sit down with, then the negotiations really can't be driven anywhere.”

“Probably some of the most impressive drumming I've done is on the 'Far Beyond Driven' record.”

“I was not driven by fame and fortune.”

“I'm driven to win every single match.”

“I can't say that I am not driven by success or have a fear of being successful. But for me, the ultimate thing is just about being good at what I do. Because if I made an album that I didn't really like and it was super successful then I wouldn't happy within. That's the kind of person I am.”

“There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.”

“I wanted to be an actor as a kid, and a lot of people would tell you to be realistic, but from a young age, our parents really realized that Jonathan and I were so driven.”

“I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.”

“Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.”

“The world view of economic development has completely changed: it is no longer believed to be driven by human labour, as Karl Marx said, or by capital, as Alfred Marshall stated, but is knowledge-driven.”

“Mr. Faber is a huge role model. He's a UFC Hall of Famer. He's such a driven person and a champion.”

“Most of my films have been very character driven.”

“Honestly, I think I have some of the biggest partners being in a small market, and I think it doesn't really matter: you can accomplish anything if you have the right people around you and be driven.”

“I'm definitely driven to go as far as I can.”

“I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career.”

“Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.”

“Our family is very art driven. We all love to create.”

“I am a very driven and hardworking person, and I am independent, and I feel that I have really good instincts.”

“Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.”

“Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.”

“Even though I thought of myself as soft and squishy, I always had this great will and focus and was just so driven.”

“I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.”

“Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?'”

“I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV - your life is crazy. But that's your career, not you.”

“At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost.”

“When a product is market driven, it should be able to pay for all its raw materials at market prices.”

“Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.”

“The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.”

“I'm driven by my passion - my family, my philanthropy, and the New England Patriots winning. That's my life.”

“Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.”

“We're acoustically driven, and there's no doubt we're country.”

“I felt that, with 'Zatanna,' I had a chance to do a story about a strong, driven woman.”

“The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no pressing economic need that the euro was required to solve, but leaders believed that it would foster growth.”

“We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.”

“What motivates me has changed over time. My younger self was driven by the desire to be extremely successful.”

“I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.”

“I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.”

“I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that are more rap have an R&B feel, so I'm with that.”

“Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.”

“Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.”

“The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.”

“I definitely like not working sometimes. It's so fun. I just love sleeping in. In America, everyone is driven to succeed and wake up and do something. But I don't care. I want to sleep in. I want to relax. I don't want to have to get up every day.”

“I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.”

“Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.”

“I've driven for A. J. Foyt, now the Andrettis, and my NASCAR team is Richard Childress Racing, which is one of the greats in that sport.”

“'Piku' was driven by subtleties. Most films come with the padding of the sound, the visual, the drama.”

“I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.”

“I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.”

“In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business.”

“I think I'm very focused and am quite a good multitasker, and I'm quite driven in knowing what my responsibilities are to my family and knowing what I've got to do to do that.”

“I've driven just about every kind of car there is.”

“I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.”

“Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.”

“I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.”

“I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.”

“This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.”

“I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.”

“I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!”

“The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.”

“So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.”

“I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.”

“I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.”

“I look for characters who are emotionally driven.”

“Comedy is actually very macho driven.”

“I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.”

“From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.”

“I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.”

“Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.”

“I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.”

“I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.”

“I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.”

“I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.”

“My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.”

“I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.”

“But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.”

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

“Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.”

“I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it.”

“I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.”

“Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.”

“My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.”

“I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.”

“If I have a yoga mat or a pair of jogging shoes, I can stay fit anywhere. The important thing is staying motivated. Because if you're not driven to keep fit, no amount of time or equipment will help.”

“I've always been hungry, but when people ask what drives you - 'How do you stay so driven throughout this whole thing?' - you just don't stop. It's every single day. The people that know me and the people that love me and are in my life see it.”

“I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.”

“Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.”

“Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.”

“I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.”

“Because it's so testosterone driven, it'd be really really difficult for a gay player to stand up and say 'hey, I'm gay and an NFL player.'”

“Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.”

“We're always driven by our mindset and feeling on a particular show day, so you'll never know what you'll get until you see it happen in the ring.”

“I feel that I'm in good company behind the wheel of the Williams FW08C. It was the first F1 car to be driven by the great Ayrton Senna, and it won the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix.”