Perception

Nothing fails like success. - G K Chesterton

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

My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve

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

Sloppy success is better than perfect mediocrity. - Alex Mandossian

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. - Zig Ziglar

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. - Frederick Schiller

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on. - Christopher Walken

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. - Criss Jami

Success is what happens while you're doing what you love. - Tom Krueger

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

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. - Elbert Hubbard

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather

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

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

If you blame others for your failures, do you also credit them for your successes? - Unknown

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. - Paul J Meyer

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

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

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

Advertising promotes the divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. - Ralph Butler

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

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. - Rudyard Kipling

Asthma is a disease that has practically the same symptoms as passion except that with asthma it lasts longer. - Unknown

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

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

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

Gardening: 1. A matter of enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it; 2. Man's effort to improve his lot. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe. - Sumner Redstone

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

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