Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

"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

"I always look for a challenge and something that's different"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"If you wait until the right time to have a child, you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad"

James Cameron, Director

"Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"Just do what feels right"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do"

John Astin, Actor

"Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand"

Robert G. Allen, Writer

"Have the courage of your desire"

George Gissing, Novelist

"You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it"

Michael Bolton, Musician

"Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about"

LaToya London, Musician

"I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun, and that's really motivating"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"We must also remember that our work is not done"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"We can always find creative ways to do things!"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"I wasn't born a superstar"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get, but if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself!"

Kate Moss, Model

"Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it!"

Mario Andretti, Celebrity

"I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives"

William Shirley, Politician

"When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have"

Faith Hill, Musician

"As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

"A woman's gifts will make room for her"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed"

John McDonald, Leader

"I look forward to proving something to myself and others"

Eric Lindros, Athlete

"You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure"

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"Everything starts as somebody's daydream"

Larry Niven, Writer

"I like to dream, but I like to make things happen"

Heidi Klum, Model

"You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it"

Don King, Celebrity

"We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment"

John McDonald, Leader

"And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead"

Andre Braugher, Actor

"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is"

Don Johnson, Actor

"I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do"

Delta Burke, Actress

"Any reaction is better than none"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"I'm always moving forward"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"I always think I am going to do my best"

Emily Watson, Actress

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