Lack of Drive Quotes

I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

How can I fail when I have no purpose?

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

I don't have any ambition.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.