Victoria Principal Quotes

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.

The only pressure I feel is the pressure I put on myself to win.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I only really work when I want to.

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.

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

It's something you have to find from within. You have to keep pushing yourself from within. It's not about what other people think and what other people say. It's about what you want to accomplish and do you want to go out there and be prepared to beat everyone you play or face.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

My motivation is internal.

I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it.

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

I'm putting it all on my shoulders, and I'm going to be successful by my will, and no one else will be responsible for it.

I set my own personal goals; I'm not playing to satisfy fans.

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

I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

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.