Jimi Hendrix Quotes

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

I think the greatest demand actually comes from within, not from outside.

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.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I do not need the transfer window or anything to improve myself.

I didn't need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

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

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

No one is going to give me opportunities. I've gotta take them.

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.

I do believe in self-help.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.