Quotes About Self-motivation

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

Before I go to work, I like to pump myself up by crying over my master's degree.

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

no trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you're not going to do the work, if you're waiting for someone to make it happen for you. It's on you. And that's why I'm telling you all of this, not because I want you to know what I do for my guys, but because I want you to know what you have to do for yourself.

You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What's stopping you?

no trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you're not going to do the work,

The greatest battles you will ever fight are with yourself, and you must always be your toughest opponent. Always demand more of yourself than others demand of you.