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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. -- B. C. Forbes
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home. -- W. C. Fields
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. -- Anthony Trollope
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
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can. -- Russell Crowe
The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world. -- Rick Warren
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I'm as pure as the driven slush. -- Tallulah Bankhead
We were driven off like rats in five minutes. -- Roger Sherman
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. -- Edward R. Murrow
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. -- Lucretius
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. -- Desiderius Erasmus
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. -- B. C. Forbes
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. -- Edward de Bono
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. -- Ruth Rendell
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. -- Blaise Pascal
The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer. -- Drake
Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return. -- Franz Kafka
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. -- Hyman Rickover
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. -- Richard Whately
I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going. -- Courtney Love
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men. -- Edward R. Murrow
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. -- Lord Acton
Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive. -- Bud Abbott
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game. -- Zinedine Zidane
I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven. -- Harry Styles
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. -- Barbra Streisand
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. -- Kofi Annan
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 memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home. -- Nina Simone
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. -- Ellen Goodman
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. -- Ratan Tata
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. -- Mary Blakely
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. -- Tony Blair
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. -- Peter Senge
I'm very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do, and if that turns you into a perfectionist, then maybe I am. -- Anna Wintour
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. -- Samuel Dash
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run. -- Soichiro Honda
I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember. -- Jonny Wilkinson
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. -- Yoko Ono
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. -- Victoria Beckham
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. -- George Will
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably. -- Michelle Bachelet
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. -- James Wolcott
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people. -- Nicole Scherzinger
Be driven but not crazy -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
I'm very driven by writing. -- Molly Shannon
My stories are character driven. -- Terry McMillan
I'm not driven by being understood. -- Kary Mullis
Society is secretly driven by sales -- Peter Thiel
No driven man hears unwanted counsel. -- Janny Wurts
Comedy is actually very macho driven. -- Scott Thompson
I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical. -- Marya Hornbacher
Most choices are driven by immediate results. -- Phil McGraw
The Americans are very effective and action-driven. -- Delphine Arnault
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven. -- Mandy Patinkin
The world belongs to passionate driven people. -- Jack Welch
I've never been driven by box office. -- Charlize Theron
In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work. -- Thomas H. Davenport
I've always been a person who is driven. -- Evelyn Lauder
I have been driven demented in my career. -- Lord Mountbatten
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. -- Michael Crichton
I hate everything that is driven by fashion. -- Dieter Rams
I look for characters who are emotionally driven. -- Stacy Keach
I've always been driven to buck the system. -- Sam Walton
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. -- Bill Hybels
I'm much more for style and not trend-driven. -- Ian Astbury
Ferraris are art, but they love being driven. -- Chris Evans
I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed. -- Ricky Ponting
I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter. -- Clay Guida
ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love. -- Hannah Storm
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative. -- David Shields
My heart is as pure as the driven slush. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories. -- Phil Keoghan
On data: We are the drivers, not the driven. -- Andy Hargreaves
I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political. -- Kevin McCloud
It's hard to be driven when you're being driven. -- Paul Solomon
I am always driven by the terror of humiliation. -- Judd Apatow
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. -- Tim Jackson
Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers. -- Albert Mohler
Children driven good are apt to be driven mad. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven. -- Roger Ailes
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. -- Alex Winter
Marriage has driven more than one man to sex. -- Peter De Vries
Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates. -- Joni Ernst
I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment. -- Johnny Depp
Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people. -- Keith Ferrazzi
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story, -- Carl Hiaasen
I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better. -- Bryan Callen
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. -- Kary Mullis
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. -- William Landay
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted. -- Jay Samit
I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives. -- Thomas Menino
I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did. -- Jo Stafford
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven. -- Eli Broad
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
because in the past words have only driven them apart. -- Jodi Picoult
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony. -- Dick Schaap
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. -- Barbra Streisand
Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers. -- Konosuke Matsushita
Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller. -- Kenneth Branagh
I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time. -- Alan Jackson
Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything. -- Gabor Mate
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. -- Barbara Hambly
I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing. -- Jay Roach
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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it. -- William Frederick Book
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. -- Thomas Hobbes
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. -- Fred Wilson
Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes. -- Michael Horton
A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create. -- Lee Hammond
I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics. -- John Key
Fashion right now, people are so...everything is driven by the aesthetic. -- Pusha T
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven. -- Hillary Clinton
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios. -- Kevin Spacey

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