Old Crutch Shelf

Funny is an attitude. - Flip Wilson

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

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

Sympathy is a crutch. Never fake a limp. - Unknown

A poor joke must invent its own laughter. - Latin Proverb

You know what's funny to me? Attitude. - Don Rickles

And that's the crutch of the situation. - Archie Bunker

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

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F Kennedy

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. - Bible

Courage under sure defeat is true magnificence. - Unknown

If you desire faith then you have faith enough. - Robert Browning

Ambition is destruction, only competence matters. - Jill Robinson

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

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

Don't give up on your dreams - keep sleeping. - Unknown

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use. - Ruth Gordon

A woman who strives to be like a man lacks ambition. - Unknown

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. - Tony Hsieh

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. - Nancy D Solomon

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul A Valery

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

A man is never old until his regrets outnumber his dreams. - Amish Saying

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

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude. - Unknown

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's. - Woody Allen

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. - Irish Murdoch

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

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. - Brian Tracy

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. - Thomas Edison

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

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

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

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. - Elbert Green Hubbard

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. - Zig Ziglar

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

For courage mixed with prudence is not foolish,
And moderation betters recklessness. - Song of Roland

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. - James Allen

The closest a person ever comes to perfection is when he fills out a job application form. - Stanley Randall

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

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes. - Mary Tyler Moore

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

Never give up.
Never accept success or failure.
Neither need be permanent.
It's attitude that counts. - Bernie Legge

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'. - C S Lewis

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. - Maya Angelou

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. - Martin Luther King Jr

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner

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