Quotes About Self-motivation

You test yourself. That's what real fighters do.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others

if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

It truly is the power that you have deep within yourself that gives you the strength to pursue your dreams.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

Winning begins at home. It begins with your thoughts and your actions.