Quotes About Self-motivation

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. —Frank Tyger

I think that's what most of us want, really, isn't it? A challenge that's just hard enough that we can accomplish it, but it'll take everything we've got. So that there's no room left in us for the doubt, the worry, the internal crises. We have to let it fill us up because that's the only way to get the job done.

Ideas only act if they are felt, if they awaken inner movement. Inner movement is conditioned by self-motivation, outer movement by compulsion.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life.

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

Put your "inner writer" back on its leash and give it a chew toy.

Are we doormats? Definitely not. The difference, as I see it, is that we get on with our lives. We don't sit around letting that situation decide our emotional state.

The child must be given activities that encourage independence, and he must not be served by others in acts he can learn to perform himself.

It was a joyful last mile," she said in her book Paula: My Story So Far, about the real-life race, and she surely earned that joy. She had talked herself through near-exhaustion by counting to 100, by aiming at landmarks, and by thoughts like, "No matter how exhausted I might feel, a half-an-hour run is one I can manage." She pushed all the way, under 5 minutes for the last mile, never tempted to save anything for another day.