Quotes About Self-motivation

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

You always try to fight for yourself, isn't it? You try to do the best possible job.

I focus on making sure I'm sharp, and it doesn't matter who I am fighting. I need to perform at my best and try to elevate my game to the highest level I possibly can, so that is what I concentrate on doing.

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

I always felt like I needed to be backed up in a corner to push myself.

I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.

I want to accomplish something for myself and set a bar for myself, for somebody to be like, 'Damn, Trippie legendary. He did such and such.'

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Why strive to be 'elite'? Because it infuses your life with purpose and meaning that does not depend on anyone or anything that can ever be taken away from you.

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.

I have always demanded the maximum of myself, but the tank is quite empty. The balance of the hard work I put in day in and day out and the satisfaction I get out of it at the end of the day is no longer there.

People believe they lack will power, but will power is not something you either have or don't, like blue eyes. Instead, it's a skill, like tennis or typing. You have to train your nervous system as you would train your muscles and reflexes. You have to take yourself to the psychic gym—but with the certainty that each time you practice an alternative behavior, you've made it easier to do next time.

La fuerza de voluntad y las resoluciones personales no son suficientes.

Source 1. Personal Motivation

Deciding to do something and going past whatever the goal was that you set is a major mental achievement. You get to feel proud of yourself for completing something. You feel good for successfully controlling yourself and doing something positive.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha , Basara, Vol. 13)

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.