Rising To The Occasion

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too. - Chris Brown

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. - A P J Abdul Kalam

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. - Leo Rosten

Be of good courage and the Lord will strengthen your heart. - The Bible

Attitude is not everything, but it's almost everything. - Mary Pipher

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams. - Yiddish proverb

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. - Zig Ziglar

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. - American Proverb

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

What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Homer Simpson

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. - Erma Bombeck

We need to take dreams more literally, and waking life more symbolically. - Robert Moss

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. - Roger von Oech

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, and had a Good Friday. - Billy Crystal

Most churches don't have a theology problem; they have a passion problem. - Gerald Brooks

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. - Conrad Hilton

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. - Stanislaus I

The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion. - Kapil Gupta

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. - Tori Amos

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretches her fingers to touch the heavens. - Lao Tzu

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without the emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. - Ravi Zacharias

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. - Don Rickles

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. - Oscar Wilde

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day. - Stephen C. Lundin

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. - Jim Hightower

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes. - Mary Tyler Moore

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may. - Leonard Nimoy

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. - Joel Osteen

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. - Mary A Radmacher

When you wake up in the morning, you have two choices: go back to sleep and dream your dreams, or wake up and chase those dreams. - Unknown

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner