Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

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 only really work when I want to.

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.

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

My motivation is internal.

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.

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

I think motivation is a thing that is 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 believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.

When you are passionate about something, you don't need external motivation to work towards achieving it.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

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.

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.