Dana Hill Quotes

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

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.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

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

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

I don't have to prove anything.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it.

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 wanted to prove to myself I can do something on my own. Not for the world, but for myself. To have that self-confidence.

I'm already self-motivated, so I don't really pay attention what people are saying.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

I don't need to be liked.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

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 think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

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.'

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

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

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

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