Sarah Dessen Quotes

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

I always have high expectations for me.

It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I would just say that I have high expecations for myself.

The only thing that motivates me is to become better.

We can be as good as we want to be. I know that's a general thing to say, I know.

I set some lofty goals for myself and I think you have to.

Life motivates me.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

Life is pulled by goals and pushed by drive. Make sure you have both!

Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.

How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.

It's something you have to find from within. You have to keep pushing yourself from within. It's not about what other people think and what other people say. It's about what you want to accomplish and do you want to go out there and be prepared to beat everyone you play or face.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.