Fergie Quotes

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

When people are motivated by principles larger than themselves, you don't have to beat them over the head to get them to act. You simply empower them, you inform them, you give them tools, and they take it upon themselves to act.

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.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

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

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

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.

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

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

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.

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.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

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

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

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

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.