Cher Quotes

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

I'm not driven by being understood.

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

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

I just kind of do my own thing, which has made me feel like a better player, a better pro because I'm in control of it. I don't have anybody who is pushing me to do something - I'm pushing myself.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else's goals for me are or their expectations. I just know that my family will always be supporting me and my friends and my coaches. And as long as I put in the hard work and know that I'm giving it my best effort, I will always be happy.

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.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

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.'

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.