Best Driving Force Quotes

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

Not that money is a driving force. It’s an honor to play for your country.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can’t.

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Make the driving force in your life love.

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

I don’t have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope…

Manners or etiquette (‘accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior’) call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue…. The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

I have the best job in the world. I’m able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There’s not a moment where I’m not in it.

My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.

You can’t write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I’m very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we’re on in conjunction with the logical rigor of understanding theoretical physics, which makes me kind of a rare bird, because usually you’re one or the other.

The image onscreen takes you forward, it’s the driving force of the piece and it’s also the information that you’re given.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

How do you spell love?… when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

I’ve always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it’s compelling, because it forces me to think. That’s always been a driving force for me.

Sex is the greatest driving force on this planet. Christ, why are we living if we can’t have a little fun? Sex is giving, and the more you give, the better lover you are.

If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked?

The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they’re all different.

Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your #? career !

Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one’s opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

I feel we’re on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.

‘Godfather’ was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.