Prayer for 2020

Genius is eternal patience. - Michelangelo

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When passion rules, she never rules wisely. - Ben Franklin

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. - Bible

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. - Voltaire

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

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

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. - Milton Berle

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

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

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. - Samuel Smiles

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. - Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

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

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. - Lawrence J. Peter

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

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. - Steven Wright

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. - Theodore Roosevelt

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. - Ruth Benedict

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

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. - William Makepeace Thackeray

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

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Ingersoll

Crimes of logic can be more catastrophic for humanity than crimes of passion. - Ravi Zacharias

Attitude is everything. Radiate positivity and you will attract positive outcomes. - Lynda Field

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. - Mignon McLaughlin

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. - George Washington

Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion. - Kapil Gupta

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

I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. - Jean-Francois Cope

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. - J Donald Walters

If we don't redouble our efforts to increase incentives for invention, this country's going to lose its edge. - Dean Kamen

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude. - Buddy Valastro

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. - Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla