Self Motivated Quotes:

I've always been very self-motivated.

- David Lee Roth

source: "Van Halen's David Lee Roth: 'I've always been a show-off' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Mick Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

topic: Self, Motivated, Self Motivated

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement, Unsuccessful, Journey To Success

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

- Homer Rice

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Self, Inspirational Athlete, Motivate Athletes

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Believe, Reality, Self, Self Motivated

I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.

- Kool Keith

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Self Motivated

Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.

- Yunho

source: Source: lovetohateme.wordpress.com

topic: Personal Motto, Self Motivated

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

- Lola Kirke

topic: Team, Self, Motivated, Self Motivated

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

- Ayn Rand

topic: Self, Moments, Motivated, Fountainhead, Self Motivated

My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.

- Rick Warren

topic: Fire, Goal, Motivated, Self Motivated

If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this world will be a challenge because the walls, ceilings and floors that protected people are also disappearing. That is what I mean when I say "it is a 401(k) world." Government will do less for you. Companies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits much more. Just showing up will not cut it.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Wall, Mean, Cutting, Tailored, Self Motivated

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

- David Elkind

topic: Children, Independent, Self, Crucial, Self Motivated

The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

- Janet Finch

topic: Father, Philosophy, Mean, Oleanders, Self Motivated

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Self, Quality, Overcoming, Self Motivated

People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need to engage them.

- Michael J. Silverstein

topic: Believe, Self, People, Self Motivated

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

- Dane Cook

topic: Sorry, Self, People, Self Motivated

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

- Venus Williams

topic: Dream, Dad, Ukulele, Self Motivated

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

- Mark Jenkins

topic: Real, Adventure, Self, Travel The World, Love Adventure

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Self, Lines, Determined, No Nonsense, Self Motivated

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

- Janet Fitch

source: Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

topic: Mean, Artist, Self, Oleanders, Self Motivated

If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.

- Mary Ellen Mark

source: Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.

topic: Photography, Self, Perfectionist, Self Motivated

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

- Mark Jenkins

topic: Travel, Kindness, Real, Way In Life, Travel The World

I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

- Danny Garcia

topic: Jobs, Self, Boxing, Self Motivated

I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.

- Yvon Chouinard

topic: Self, People, Trying, Self Motivated

Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.

- Oliver DeMille

topic: Teacher, Self, Choices, Self Motivated

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

- Seth Godin

topic: Motivation, Self, Long, Self Motivated

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

source: "The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides". Jordan Business magazine, December 2006.

topic: Thinking, Self, Years, Self Motivated

Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

- Nancy Pearcey

topic: Children, Independent, Government, Self Motivated

I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

- Aly Raisman

topic: Athlete, Gymnastics, Thinking, Working Really Hard, Self Motivated