Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I want people to really be inspired, to believe they can do whatever they want.

My company motto is 'Inspire the world to try.'

For most of my career, I've known what it's like to be in the audience and to enjoy what I'm seeing but still have the ambition to say, 'I can do that, I know I can do that. And I want to do that, and I can't wait for that to happen.'

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

Nobody knows what you have in you until you've done it, so I just keep pushing those boundaries, and I figure it will all come out in the wash.

At a certain point, you have to decide whether you'd be satisfied always acknowledging the beauty and the greatness of what other people create or if you want to be in the same arena.

Inspiring people to look at their goals and go for that and believe in themselves is amazing.

'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

I live for inspiring people to do things they think they can't. My goal is to completely eliminate the word 'can't' from the equation.

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

I inspire myself.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

A little bit of agitation gives motivation to the soul, and what really makes the species prosper is not peace so much as freedom.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.