Ned Beatty Quotes

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

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

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.

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

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.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

I am not driven.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

The only deadline is the one I give myself.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.

The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.

I think motivation is a thing that is inside of you.

The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.