Tommy Caldwell Quotes

I'm a very motivated person. I don't need extra motivation.

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.

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

I've always been very self-motivated.

I was always self-motivated.

It's not about motivation. It's about what's driven inside of you.

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 find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

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

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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.'

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

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

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

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.

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

I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

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.

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.

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

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.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.