Quotes About Self-motivation

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Stop sleeping on yourself.

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity—that was how to get stuff done.

you must everywhere build on piles of your own driving.

I've had a lot of bosses that I didn't agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can't let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I'm the one that's yelling at myself. I've worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It's my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: 'Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.'

Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.'

I didn't have the greatest equipment or the greatest facilities. I would see people with new shoes and better cars. I knew what I wanted and what I had to do to get what I wanted. I became a very Spartan person at a young age because of that.

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

I made my name". What does this mean? It means you developed endurance, perseverance and will-to-win as a core part of your character

Either you will drive your life toward success, or life will drive you into the ditch.

If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.

Success is within reach of all people, but you can grasp it only when you realise the power within you.

You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.

Running your own race means embracing your dreams and shifting towards them and not letting anyone discourage you from your goals or dreams. Create your NAPS with this in mind!