Quotes About Self-motivation

The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director for hire, is going back to where I started as a self-generating director. After trying and failing to get so many things made, I have decided that you've just got to do something you really, really love.

I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.

If you make no excuses, there's nothing holding you back.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.

I feel like once you start to tell yourself that it's your last year, you kind of aren't as sharp and lose some attention, drive and hunger.

I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.

Our philosophy at Zoom is to create a company that promotes self-motivation. I have told our managers not to spend too much time motivating employees. You have to create an environment where employees can motivate themselves. That is really important because self-motivation is more sustainable.

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic soundtrack.

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself

Pro surfer. Sometimes you only need to hear someone say it out loud. Sometimes you only need to say it to yourself to make a dream come true.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.

We must do what we do to satisfy our own hearts... (p. 87)

If you give your body a choice, it will always take the easy way out. Your body lies. It tells you it cannot when it can.

That's me giving myself a tough-love speech. I'm going to start doing that more often, I've decided. One might as well put his inner monologue to good use.

he does not achieve through other men nor for other men, he achieves through and for himself alone, then offers it to others.

conformarse con un trabajo que requiere menos que la plena capacidad de tu mente es apagar tu motor y sentenciarte a la decadencia; de que nuestro trabajo es el proceso de alcanzar nuestros valores, y de que perder nuestra ambición por los valores es perder nuestra ambición de vivir; de que nuestro cuerpo es una máquina, pero nuestra mente es su conductor, y se debe conducir tan lejos como nos lleve nuestra mente