Top 55 Driving Force Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Driving Force Quotes from famous people such as Ricky Gervais, Jose Angel Gurria, Hugo Chavez, Basmah bint Saud, Anthony Jeselnik, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you’re a successful comedian or actor, then you’re a famous one. But it’s not the driving force. It’s a by-product.
Ricky Gervais
The U.K. is much stronger as a part of Europe, and Europe is much stronger with the U.K. as a driving force.
Jose Angel Gurria
Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America.
Hugo Chavez
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.
Basmah bint Saud
The driving force behind doing everything that I’ve been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
Anthony Jeselnik
The driving force behind ‘In Our Time’ is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.
Melvyn Bragg
I knew from the first time I put my hand on the barre at the age of eight that dancing was all I wanted to do and that it was what I was going to do, and nothing was going to stop me. That has always been the driving force in my life. It is who I am.
Arlene Phillips
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
I just always want to play people. I don’t want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That’s the driving force.
Felicity Jones
Money is not the driving force in my life.
Ayesha Takia
We are splintering what was the ‘camera’ and its functionality – lens, sensors, and processing – into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.
Om Malik
Competitive spirit is a driving force that keeps life going with a thrill.
Balachandra Menon
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force – never be satisfied with what I’ve done.
Thierry Henry
That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
Berkeley Breathed
I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.
Xzibit
From day one, we’ve always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we’ve had and presented. That’s also kind of been the driving force that’s pushed us forward.
Zacky Vengeance
Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.
Chris Meledandri
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.
Colleen Hanabusa
You know, Kiss can always go on as long as Gene and Paul want it to go on. Static-X is the same way. We’re the two founding guys and the two vocalists and the driving force of the band. We can go on as long as we want, as long as the two of us are together. If I ever lost Tony, I’m sure I’d start something else.
Wayne Static
I feel good when my films get all the love, respect, and appreciation. That is my driving force to do better work in future.
Bhumi Pednekar
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
Jacques Delors
My career and my stats, they all speak for itself so to say that I’ve got anything to prove to people, to say ‘well, look, I can play, I’m not just a big guy,’ that really is not my driving force in life.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.
David Blunkett
For actors, social media is a driving force.
Shruti Haasan
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe’s Christian roots was the driving force.
Rocco Buttiglione
My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.
Manny Pacquiao
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
Morgan Freeman
My passion is my driving force.
Soni Razdan
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders – companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
Ma Jun
I’m an athlete and a professional, I like challenges and this is my driving force.
Ivan Perisic
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is thi

I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich.
Mark Pagel
Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights.
Paul Polman
Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.
Jim Lehrer
I think I can speak with a degree of authority… today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.
Terry Hayes
Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.
Eddie Alvarez
Money is not the driving force behind my decisions to accept or reject a project.
Asin
I believe in conscientious capitalism; that’s a kind of driving force with me.
Zachary Levi
My driving force is spirituality.
Debra Wilson
The whole world is determined by trade – which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone’s desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the ‘Holy Grail’ is economic growth.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance.
Savion Glover
I’m terrified of the unknown, which is a driving force for me. I like this idea that the things that terrify us also draw us in.
David Harbour
Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.
Grant Shapps
Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
Monica Ali
Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
Hugh Hefner
I don’t really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It’s not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
Gary Bettman
As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.
Stephanie Coontz
Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.
Paul DePodesta
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
Yitzhak Shamir
The Green Real Deal rejects regulation as the driving force of reform and instead unlocks the unlimited potential of American innovation and ingenuity.
Matt Gaetz
Bollywood is the biggest driving force and action movies are the people’s number one choice.
Raj Kundra
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it’s office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
Tom Peters
Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
RM
I’ve never thought much about energy, or a higher power, or the driving force behind someone’s purpose.
Joe Wicks
Cultural Marxism that has permeated all of Europe and has been the driving force that has brought France – the nation of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality – to the brink.
Charlie Kirk