Khalil Gibran Quotes

I only really work when I want to.

People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn't matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

My motivation is internal.

Since I was 12 and didn't want to go training I have always worked hard not to waste my talent.

I believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.

The best motivation is self-motivation.

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.