Seth Godin Quotes

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I love doing things that people say can't be done.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

I always look for a challenge. Maybe it's part of my mentality to create something special.

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.

If your dream sounds like a real stretch and everyone around you is looking at you like you have completely lost it, it might just be exactly what you need.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.

For me, I love doing what is said can't be done.

Do something great that you really believe is great.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.