Self Motivated Quotes

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

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2016

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• 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

  Motivational, Inspiring, Teamwork

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• 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

  Believe, Reality, Self

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• I've always been very self-motivated.

  David Lee Roth

  Self, Motivated

  "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.

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• 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

  Something New, Motivated

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Order, Have Faith, Motto

  Source: lovetohateme.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Team, Self, Motivated

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 2016.

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

  Ayn Rand

  Self, Moments, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.56, Penguin

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• 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

  Fire, Goal, Motivated

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Wall, Mean, Cutting

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• 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

  Children, Independent, Self

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• 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

  Father, Philosophy, Mean

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• 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

  Self, Quality, Overcoming

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• 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

  Believe, Self, People

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• 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

  Sorry, Self, People

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

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Dream, Dad

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

  Mark Jenkins

  Travel, Real, Adventure

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

  Bear Grylls

  Self, Lines, Determined

  Bear Grylls (2011). “Mud, Sweat and Tears”, p.7, Random House

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• 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

  Mean, Artist, Self

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

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• 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

  Photography, Self, Perfectionist

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

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• 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

  Motivational, Travel, Kindness

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• 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

  Jobs, Self, Boxing

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• 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

  Self, People, Trying

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• 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

  Teacher, Self, Choices

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

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, Self, Long

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Information Solutions Interview, www.experian.com.

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