Ted Cruz Quotes

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.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

You can't help someone unless she wants to help herself. You can give her a nudge, but if she doesn't want to help herself, no one is going to be able to force her to do anything. I like that "attraction rather than promotion" approach.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do.

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

Even if you have so many people saying, 'Yes, this is for you! This is your path!' unless you feel it... It needs to be your own passion, it needs to be your own will.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

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

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

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

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.