Quotes About Self-motivation

I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.

I don't care about that All-Star bonus, to be honest. It's just about my legacy.

You can't be an entrepreneur for other people. You can't start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn't a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life - but yet, it is so rewarding.

I kinda motivate myself and keep me on my toes.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

It can be hard to find time sometimes, but it's all about motivating yourself. I do whatever I can whenever I can.

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I am a marvelously effective procrastinator. I get right to it. And yet, over these thirty days, I never wrote fewer than two pages a day and sometimes wrote as many as ten. I have once or twice before in my life written this much in a single month, but never with such ease and pleasure. Maybe I've turned into one of those clone robots of myself my therapist asked me to imagine! I

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Everyone finds the time to do the things the want to do.

If you train a dog it will follow you but if you train yourself you will be Great.

Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!

If it has to be it's up to me.

Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.

The power of greatness lies within each of us.

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.

You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

No one will do it for you.

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.