Quotes About Self-motivation

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

You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it's a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.

You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it's a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.

Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded.

You can't buy motivation. You can't obtain it from someone else. "Motivation is something nobody else can give you," Joe DiMaggio said. "Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you, and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

As Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic champion figure skater, said, the most important thing is to love your sport. Never compete just to please someone else. "You've got to love what you're doing," hockey great Gordie Howe said. "If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains.

To achieve anything you want in life you must first start by getting out of your own way.

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

our temperaments may define us, that doesn't mean we're controlled by them—if we can find something or someone that motivates us to push beyond the boundaries of our nerves. I'm happy to be an introvert, but that's not all I am.

To be clear, she always admired hard workers: she just didn't see the point of laboring to benefit someone else. "If you're going to work hard," she used to say, "you might as well work hard for yourself.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Follow your own star!

The tendency of people skirting 30s and 40s is to feel lethargic or weak. But trust me, most of it is in your head. If you keep pushing and challenging yourself, your body will not betray your will.

If you really want change, no one else is going to make that for you. It's all mental at first. Once you overcome that mental part, your body can do anything.

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

There's no one to stop you but yourself.

It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

If no one else is going to hype you up, you have to do it yourself.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!