Ain't Mowing the Lawn Anymore

The great gift of Easter is hope. - Basil C Hume

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. - John Muir

I hope karma slaps you in the face before I do. - Unknown

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. - Alan Price

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. - Rickey Henderson

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathan Winters

A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope. - Terri Guillemets

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. - Dale Carnegie

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. - Ice-T

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. - Joel Osteen

The most beautiful make-up is passion but cosmetics are easier to buy. - Yves Saint Laurent

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong. - Mae West

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. - Sir William Osler

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. - Cher

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen. - Wayne Huizenga

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Joseph Addison

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. - Amy Tan

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. - James Cameron

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. - Stephen Covey

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking