Shane Smith Quotes

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.

You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

The way to get motivated and stay motivated is to identify, define, and emotionally connect to your dreams.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

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

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

We're dream chasers. Nobody owes us our dream. But we have to chase it.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want 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 are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

Stop whining, start hustling.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.