Rachel Simmons Quotes

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 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.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

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

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

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 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.

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

I only really work when I want to.

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.

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

I'm not driven by being understood.

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.

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

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

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

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

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.

The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

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

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