Quotes About Self-motivation

Mind power use is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.

Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want."

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

The principal is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement about being better than you were the day before.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.

Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.

Coming from a smaller school, you kind of have a chip on your shoulder, so to speak.

Nobody wants to stay in Green Bay and run laps in the snow and go boxing in the gym. Everybody has what works for them, and I feel as though this works for me - it keeps me hungry, it keeps me with that edge. Other guys get a hard day's work in, but they're on the beach afterward.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

I don't have a trainer. Crazy, right? But I don't need anyone to motivate me. I love exercise, even things like the elliptical and stretching.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue. These

14. Motivate yourself into action: Be your own cheerleader. Look for the good in every situation. Focus on the solution rather than the problem. Always be optimistic and constructive.

Your mind, your ability to think, plan, and decide is your most powerful tool for overcoming procrastination.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

By the time I started to study, it was a conscious decision. It wasn't just something my mother wanted for me, as it is with most of those little girls. So I really worked at dancing - from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. every day - and I loved it.

I realized I need to work. I need to be creative. As much as I have angst and anxiety, when I'm idle, it's even more. I have to keep moving. Otherwise, I catch up with myself.

Even if I was the only keeper left on the planet, I would still be trying to get better.

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

The good news is that you have everything you need to lift yourself off the couch to start kicking butt. You just have to decide that you're going to do it, not that you're too lazy to.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.