Quotes About Self-motivation

Everything comes from your mind. You have to push yourself to get things going in your direction. If you are stubborn, nothing will help. If you are sad, nothing will help. You have to keep positive and to work very well for your next chance.

Personal qualities of character such as self-motivation and conscientiousness will reap a lot of gains in the new world to come.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

But God ain't going to do a thing until you get up and do something yourself. Everything starts with you.

Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.

Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?

you have to believe in yourself when no one else does that's what makes you a winner

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the best way to get things done for you, is for you to do it.

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.

You are your first cheerleader and business promoter

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor being a good person guarantees success... the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

I set my own goals higher than what anybody else has set for me.