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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Human success is a quotation from overhead. - Charles H. Parkhurst

It's not failure. It's unfinished success. - Unknown

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Benjamin Franklin

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. - Ogden Nash

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

I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau

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

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring. - Bernard Williams

Without passion you don't have energy, without energy you have nothing. - Donald Trump

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

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. - Amelia Earhart

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. - Aeschylus

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

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. - Jane Austen

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

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

No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. - Angela Thirkell

The best leaders incentivize, inspire and empower their teams to be creative and innovative. - Michael Bloomberg

Today I will live in the moment unless it's unpleasant in which case I will eat a cookie. - Unknown

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

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

The greatest human achievement is not success but facing an unchangeable fate with great courage. - Viktor Frankl

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - Benjamin Franklin

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the birds have flown. - Henry Ward Beecher

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. - Jonathan Swift

Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm, and ideas about how to solve that problem. - Laura Fitton

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. - Unknown

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden