Russia's Got Talent

The things that courage can do. - James M Barrie

Patience is a conquering virtue. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Having no talent is no longer enough. - Gore Vidal

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. - Friedrich Schiller

I made a fortune getting out too soon. - J P Morgan

Ambition is not a vice of little people. - Michel de Montaigne

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

Hopes are but the dreams of those who wake - Pindar

Courage without conscience is a wild beast. - Robert G Ingersoll

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Seneca

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. - Ben Johnson

Ambition is destruction, only competence matters. - Jill Robinson

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. - Stanley Kunitz

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. - Patti Smith

Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker

The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off. - Tacitus

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. - Elias Canetti

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

My ambition was to be successful, wherever that would lead me. - Joe Segal

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. - Unknown

The distance between your dreams and reality is called action. - Unknown

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crumbly attitude. - Unknown

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. - Spinoza

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. - Dale Carnegie

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. - Michael Jordan

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. - Ruth Gordon

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Have patience and endure: this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. - Ovid

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas

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

In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you. - Yakov Smirnoff

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. - Jane Addams

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

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins. - Rachel Klein

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. - Bill Bernbach

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams, talk you out of going after yours. - Zig Ziglar

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

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. - Andrew Carnegie

Liability: 1. The art of convincing others of your innocence; 2. A talent for telling untruths. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. - Patrick Swayze

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

True kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams. - Marcel Wanders

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

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

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream. - Tommy Hilfiger

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body. - Christian Louboutin

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. - William Bradford

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward. - Shannon L. Alder

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson