Quotes About Self-motivation

I like to win my own way, and I like to lose my own way. I believe motivation comes from within.

My motivation is internal.

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

When you are passionate about something, you don't need external motivation to work towards achieving it.

I think motivation is a thing that is inside of you.

I don't need much motivation.

To me, in this league, if your only motivation is what everyone else says, you're probably not going to be here that long.

I think you've got to have an internal motivation, an internal drive, a constant chip on your shoulder.

We sell ideas and solutions to people, and people sell our products and services to themselves.

The universe doesn't make a doggone thing happen. You make things happen for yourself.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror.

When you make a plan to merge your real-life goals with your money, you may discover you have to overcome yourself more than anyone or anything else.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Don't be afraid to make demands on yourself and push yourself beyond the comfortable limits of what you think you can accomplish; you'll never exhaust your reservoir of potential for accomplishment and achievement. The only limits we possess are the ones we impose upon ourselves.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, gnaw it still.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around.

Don't compare yourself to other runners; focus on your own fitness and performance.

That's just never been me - 'Oh, this is hurt; that's why I'm playing like this.' That's just not the type of person I am.