Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

"If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

"Fall down seven times, get up eight times."

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."

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

"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."

I've always believed in magic. When I wasn't doing anything in this town, I'd go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch my arms out and say, "Everybody wants to work with me. I'm a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers." I'd just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple movies lined up. I'd drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, "Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet." It was like total affirmations, antidotes to the stuff that stems from my family background.

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."

"Success is due less to ability than to zeal."

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."