Quotes About Self-motivation

I've had to push myself and I've really matured.

I want to win medals for myself.

I am my own main rival.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

We don't focus on our rivals: we focus on ourselves.

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

Sometimes I hear fans say that 'you should play for the emblem on the shirt.' I play for myself because after two inaccurate passes the fans are already cursing you.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.

I wanted to prove to myself I can do something on my own. Not for the world, but for myself. To have that self-confidence.

I do believe in self-help.

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

If you can't keep yourself in shape on your own without being told to, that's a shame.

I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.

You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.

I don't like watching others batting and scoring runs I could be scoring. It is nice to see guys being successful but at the same time I want to be the one out there doing it.

I have always had a bee in my bonnet about being seen to do things for myself.

After winning 'K-pop Star' and debuting as a singer, I had a team of people who helped me. But then I realized that to do my own music, there's work that I myself had to take care of and no one can do it on behalf of me. So I started writing my own music.

Nada me obliga a seguir adelante, nada que no sea mi propio deseo de hacerlo.

Si vous vous persuadez à vous-même que vous pouvez faire une chose quelconque, pourvu qu'elle soit possible, vous la ferez, si difficile qu'elle puisse être. Si, au contraire, vous vous imaginez ne pas pouvoir faire la chose la plus simple du monde, il vous est impossible de la faire et les taupinières deviennent pour vous des montagnes infranchissables.