Jeff MacNelly Quotes

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

I take the sporting genes from my dad.

If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

Characteristics cling to families.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

If you knew that miracles could happen, what miracles would you wish for? If you knew that you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do?

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be.

Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they just happen to watch me on TV and like the way I ski. Obviously I clearly wouldn't like that person if I knew 'em better.

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.

Until your dream dominates your mindset, you'll never wake up to your greatness.

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that.

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

What’s going on?” he demanded. “The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.

Let others lead small lives, but not you