It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

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

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.

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

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.

The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

People are more easily led than driven.

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

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy.

Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

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.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.

1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.
2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi."
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5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually.

"Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

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.