Howard Dean Quotes

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied.

I've always been very self-motivated.

People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that's what drives me.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.

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

I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.

I am very motivated, I always want to play.

Motivation is motive in action.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit.

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

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