Natalie Massenet Quotes

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.