Rasheed Wallace Quotes

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

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

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

Why strive to be 'elite'? Because it infuses your life with purpose and meaning that does not depend on anyone or anything that can ever be taken away from you.

To me, I will be a stronger person if I'm moving forward, doing the work I want, and continue to drive: force the purpose that I want to create versus doing what other people think I should be doing, which is never a way to live.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

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

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

The will of man is his happiness.

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

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.'

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

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.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

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

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.