Motivation & Success: Motivational Quotes

"You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Give luck a chance to happen"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things"

Donna Summer, Musician

"People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be"

Mark Lawrenson, Athlete

"Become your dream"

James De La Vega, Artist

"I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting!"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"I am with you, heart and soul, in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life"

Frank Leslie, Artist

"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents"

Edward Hoagland, Author

"I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars"

John L. Phillips, Astronaut

"I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness"

Demi Moore, Actress

"Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging"

Duke Snider, Athlete

"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'When you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed"

Jody Watley, Musician

"Taking risks gives me energy"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"A person starts dying when they stop dreaming"

Brian Williams, Journalist

"Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity"

Allan Sloan, Journalist

"Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions"

Charles Edwards, Leader

"Everyone has the impulse to be elite"

Alfre Woodard, Actress

"Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that, when added together, can make you victorious"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Politician

"We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way, this could be frustrating"

Anne Northup, Politician

"Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"Those boos really motivate me to make something happen!"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more"

Danica Patrick, Celebrity

"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks"

Johann Gottfried von Herder, Philosopher

"When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living"

Robin Quivers, Celebrity

"Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize"

John Stuart Blackie, Writer

"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom"

Larry David, Actor

"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything, you will have great success"

Greg Akcelrod, Athlete

"The destiny of our society is yours to make, and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do"

Polykarp Kusch, Scientist

"I love proving people wrong"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

"What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream"

Mike Melville, Aviator

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