Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

Harry Chapin, Musician

"Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless"

Frederick C. Frieseke, Painter

"You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness"

Percy Ross, Businessman

"If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire"

John W. Foster, Soldier

"If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?"

Lee Strasberg, Director

"You can do more, you can always do more"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream"

Emmitt Smith, Athlete

"If you dream and you believe, you can do it"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean"

Percy Ross, Businessman

"If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level"

Tony Goldwyn, Actor

"Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and if you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive"

Harry Chapin, Musician

"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts"

Gary Player, Athlete

"Shut up and lace up"

L. M. Heroux, Writer

"If you put the right things out there, the right things will happen"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

"I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history"

Al Oerter, Athlete

"If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later, all dejected and a failure"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"Just do what you do best"

Red Auerbach, Coach

"I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best"

Al Oerter, Athlete

"We all have levels of performance"

Angela Lansbury, Actress

"You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree"

John N. Mitchell, Politician

"I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination"

Jimmy Dean, Actor

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it"

Claudette Colbert, Actress

"They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession"

Louise Jameson, Actress

"That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do"

Karl Urban, Actor

"If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk"

John Tesh, Musician

"All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred"

W. H. Murray, Athlete

"I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody, was to do stand-up"

George Lopez, Comedian

"It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities"

Lee Majors, Actor

"I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks"

John Tesh, Musician

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself"

Anna Jameson, Writer

"To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens, it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

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