Philip Zimbardo Quotes

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

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

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

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

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.

Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.

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

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

You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.

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.

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I do believe in self-help.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

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?