Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

"You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do"

Bryan Singer, Director

"Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things"

James Robinson, Writer

"The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing"

Garson Kanin, Playwright

"My philosophy has always been, 'do what you love and the money will follow.'"

Amy Weber, Actress

"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking"

Jim McMahon, Athlete

"Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act"

Billy Crudup, Actor

"Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater"

Mary Manin Morrissey, Celebrity

"The only risk we run is by doing nothing"

Brian Higgins, Politician

"One day's delay is another day's lack of progress"

Stuart Bowen, Writer

"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone"

Donny Osmond, Musician

"In spite of your fear, do what you have to do"

Chin-Ning Chu, Author

"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do"

Vince Poscente, Writer

"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith"

Mary Manin Morrissey, Celebrity

"Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall"

Tobias Smollett, Writer

"Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it"

Charles L. Allen, Clergyman

"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it"

Hildegard Knef, Actress

"The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you"

Jack L. Chalker, Author

"Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them"

Dionne Warwick, Musician

"You do not know what you can miss before you try"

Franklin Pierce Adams, Writer

"You never know what motivates you"

Cicely Tyson, Actress

"Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?"

Charles L. Allen, Clergyman

"Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"My advice: be healthy, reach your own goals, and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star"

Teri Hatcher, Actress

"The important thing is that when you come to understand something, you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go"

Helen Prejean, Writer

"We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale"

John Hope

"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution"

David Joseph Schwartz, Businessman

"Stay focused on the mission"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"Don't dream it, be it"

Tim Curry, Actor

"If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it"

Wanda Sykes, Comedian

"I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead"

Jeremy Renner, Actor

"More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself"

Gabriel Heatter, Journalist

"That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of"

Sam Raimi, Director

"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original"

Roy Acuff, Musician

"We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet"

Steve King, Politician

"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen"

Richard M. DeVos, Businessman

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough"

Richard M. DeVos, Businessman

"I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity"

Robert Baldwin, Politician

"The only safe thing is to take a chance"

Mike Nichols, Director

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