Ain't Mowing the Lawn Anymore

What some invent the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Emile Zola

I never thought of myself as much of a success. - Stan Lee

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. - Samuel Smiles

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

Is 'ugh' an emotion? Because I feel it all the time. - Unknown

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you. - Zig Ziglar

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi

There is no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary. - Donald Kimball

Hold on to a ray of hope, and a promise of future... and follow your dreams. - Unknown

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. - Samuel Johnson

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. - Louise Bogan

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. - R Buckminster Fuller

Nobody was ever meant,
To remember or invent,
What he did with every cent. - Robert Frost

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. - John C Maxwell

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Swami Sivananda

From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it's a passion. - Gordon Ramsay

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. - T S Eliot

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Gen. Colin L. Powell

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. - Seymour Papert

Never give up.
Never accept success or failure.
Neither need be permanent.
It's attitude that counts. - Bernie Legge

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

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sens, regardless of how it turns out. - Vaclav Havel

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. - Cyril Connolly

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater