Quotes About Self-motivation

Napoleon Hill refers to this method as concentration, but today it is most often called creative visualization, and it is the autosuggestion technique widely taught by contemporary motivational experts.

Self-suggestion is purposefully controlled from within. It is a suggestion you give to yourself.

Brace up. Stand erect. Strengthen your backbone and, with it, your jaw bone. Say "I will" instead of "I wish." The world bestows her prizes on men with backbone and the blanks on those who use their wishbone.

Autosuggestion is self-motivation.

Hay dos tipos de hombres que nunca llegan a nada», decía Andrew Carnegie. «Uno es el que no hace lo que se le dice que haga. El otro es el que nunca hace más de lo que se le dice que haga y —añade— aquel que sale adelante hace lo que debe hacer sin que nadie le diga que lo haga, pero no se detiene ahí. Va más allá haciendo bastante más de lo que se espera de él.»

Back of all achievement, back of all self-control, back of all thought control, is that magic something called desire! It is no misstatement of fact to say that you are limited only by the depth of your desires!

la fe es un estado de ánimo, y que puede ser inducida por la autosugestión".

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

I wanted to look in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. The only person is me, and that's the only thing that drives me. The only person I'm in competition with is myself.

I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.

I stand in the mirror, look at the plays and try to say them to myself to get ready for the next day.

Every day I wake up I look in the mirror and I say to myself, 'It's time.' The reason for that is I believe we're only as good as today.

I take a freezing cold shower to start every day, and when I can't take it any more, I count 20 Mississippi's. Then I literally walk out of the shower and say, 'Let's go.'

I'm quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.

I just bring energy, try to put myself in a good mood, because you're not going to get through practice if you're drowsy, don't feel like doing nothing. Then it's going to be a long practice and coach is going to be all over you.

I think I've learned that if I really set my mind to something and really motivate myself in that direction I can get anything done.

If you can't motivate yourself to get up and play in front of 30,000-40,000 people, then you're not in the right job.

I have to motivate myself every season now to win things I've already won just to build my own legacy and try to end my career as high up as I possibly can.

I believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.

Keeping myself motivated is not hard.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.

I love putting a chip on my shoulder. It's just more motivation to go out there and show my ability.