Old Crutch Shelf

Fortune favors the bold. - Ennius

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude. - Dolly Parton

The ungovernable passion for wealth. - Ovid

I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger

Follow your dreams, they know the way. - Kobe Yamada

I do desire we may be better strangers. - William Shakespeare

The treacheries of ambition never cease. - Ruben Dario

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage. - Josiah Royce

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection. - Drake Edwards

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. - Richard Pryor

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

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Tennyson

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not a dreamer... but I believe in miracles. I have to. - Terry Fox

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

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. - Marcia Wieder

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

Shells sink,
Dreams float,
Life's good
On our boat. - Jimmy Buffet

Life was not meant to be easy, but take courage: it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - Bible

Your attitude towards anything in life is completely under your control. - Micah Lacerte

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. - Joseph Addison

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

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. - Brian Tracy

Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent. - William Blake

Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide

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

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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou

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

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker

I am happier when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. - Martin Luther

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Francis Bacon

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. - Colleen Hoover

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good. - Dolly Parton

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. - Les Brown

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. - Andre Gide

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. - Wade Boggs

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. - Geraldine Brooks

Follow your dreams. Figure out where you'd like to be, what you would like to be doing, and then figure out what you need to do to get there. - Kennon M Sheldon

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