Quotes About Self-motivation

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

When you stop relying on others or blaming others or waiting on others to go kill something and bring it back for you to eat, you realize you have to go hunt and kill for yourself. You don't complain about what you lack or let setbacks get in the way of finding a way to make your dreams happen. You just go do it.

The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.

You'll light your own bloody self on fire if you have to. And then you can pat yourself on the back and tell yourself you knew it all along. Congratulations.

If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

instead, they sought to improve themselves so that they might become masters of their world.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

I don't let a day go where I'm not doing something that enhances me or allows me to sit up here and keep my spirits going.

It's crazy because 'Icy Girl' came when I was in a dark place, but I made it to motivate myself. It was kind of like my anthem for lifting up my spirits.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.

I'm only competing with myself.

Of course I have ambitions, even if I don't play for the national team.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.

I'd rather take a beating sometimes than get in that gym every morning. Anyone who gets up that early and says he likes it is a goddamned liar. The only good thing about it is that when I'm finished, I look at myself in the mirror and say, "Jack, you've done it again!"