Internal Motivation Quotes

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

When I'm on set, I don't really think about what an audience is going to think about a scene. I'm just thinking about how I can make it best. And how I can enjoy myself most.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

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

We may convince others by our argument; but we can only persuade them by their own.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

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.

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.

I'm competitive with myself.

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.

You should seek approval from yourself.

It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.