Quotes About Self-motivation

No one owes you a great career, it argues; you

You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.

I think any personality fits this role (developer advocate), but I would classify the ideal person as someone who is able to create things without anybody telling them what to do. I think that is crucial. - Bruno Borges

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Sometimes it seems easier to be Natalie. People force her to do stuff. I have to force myself.

People are responsible for themselves. All you can do is try to inspire each person to be his best self.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.

Human improvement is from within outward.

So long as I believe I have to do certain things, I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.

For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

I'm always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It's my strong will that I've always had since I was a kid.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one of those days, I'll just be like. 'I'm not going to let this be a bad day,' and I'll do everything I can to turn it around.

Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things.

I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

If you cannot pick yourself up, if you cannot start taking action right now, then who is going to do it for you?

beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet

If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.