Quotes About Self-motivation

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

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As a teacher, I pride myself on education, but I quickly realized you can't motivate people who are unwilling to do what it takes to succeed. They need to want it for themselves more than you want it for them.

Do for yourself, for no one else will.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

A champion is always in competition only with oneself; so a real winner is only focused on his goal in life, but the actual losers often keep seeing themselves in the mirror to always know as what their competitor is doing.

When a person is on a right track and actually winning, he appears alone running ahead of others and not seen with the people in the crowd. The same principle applies to the life's race as well.

Success in life is to be measured by the goals you've set yourself.

A man is the origin of his action.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

Next time, you question what you are doing - ask yourself? What could I do more? In most cases, extra time will be the greatest leverage you can apply!

We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors.

Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

I basically raised myself.

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'

When I speak to people I worked with when I was young, they constantly tell me they wish their students would work half as hard as I did. I was always one to get a lot more out of myself, seeing the glass as half-empty rather than half-full.

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.