Cup on the Edge

Enthusiasm moves the world. - Arthur James Balfour

Hope is a very unruly emotion. - Gloria Steinem

The ungovernable passion for wealth. - Ovid

Nothing happens unless at first a dream. - Carl Sandburg

Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When passion rules, she never rules wisely. - Ben Franklin

Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button. - Unknown

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

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

Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible. - George Leonard

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well. - John D Rockefeller

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

A great dream with a bad team is nothing more than a nightmare. - John C Maxwell

Success if liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

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

Success is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one. - Barbra Streisand

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

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. - Unknown

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H Glasow

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. - Ernest T. Seton

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

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. - Mary Little

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

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr

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

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - C S Lewis

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? - Logan P Smith

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. - Newell D. Hillis

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames

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

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T S Eliot

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi

There are two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you, or you can use it as fuel to drive you: to dream bigger, to work harder. - Taylor Swift