Ain't Mowing the Lawn Anymore

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan

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

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. - Thomas Norton

Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise. - Unknown

Life's failures are stepping stones to success. - Unknown

Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands. - Zig Ziglar

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. - John Boorman

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. - Walter Scott

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work. - Marilyn Suttle

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

There is no elevator to success - you have to take the stairs. - Unknown

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

Success isn't everything, but it makes a man stand straight. - Lillian Hellman

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault

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

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

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

You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Unknown

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

You can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. - Paulo Coelho

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude. - Zig Ziglar

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. - Bill Gates

To demand more of yourself than you do of others is the first step on any ladder of success. - Unknown

I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me. - Keith Urban

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity. - O.A. Battista

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

We so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. - Ellen Glasgow

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes ... keep hope alive. - Jesse Jackson

Businesses should follow and learn from others' successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. - Ben Mezrich

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. - Orison Swett Marden

The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them. - J.G. Holland

Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this and adopt this definition, success is yours. - Kelly Kim

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. - Maya Angelou

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. - Unknown

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins