Smaller Steps

Hope costs nothing. - Colette

Happiness is a form of courage. - Holbrook Jackson

People fail forward to success. - Mary Kay Ash

Without Christ there is no hope. - Charles H Spurgeon

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

The best revenge is massive success. - Frank Sinatra

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! - Dante Alighieri

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. - Unknown

A man of courage is also full of faith. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes

In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. - Russian Proverb

I hope my ship comes in before my dock rots. - Unknown

Success is due less to ability than to zeal. - Charles Buxton

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior

Howling Success: The baby that gets picked up - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. - Marian Wright Edelman

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde

I hope karma slaps you in the face before I do. - Unknown

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud

Ambition is destruction, only competence matters. - Jill Robinson

The lower the Lattitude, the better the Attitude. - Unknown

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. - Catullus

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. - Bobby Unser

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie. - Lou D. Phillips

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. - Earl Nightingale

Second Marriage: The triumph of hope over experience. - Samuel Johnson

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

A fantastic positive attitude make a great day! Smile! - Mary D Bradford

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. - Martha Graham

You measure success by how much good you do for others. - Zig Ziglar

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

Punk is defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. - David Byrne

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men. - John S Mill

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. - Oscar Wilde

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. - Elizabeth Taylor

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. - Abraham Cowley

Ambition hath no mean, it is either upon all fours or upon tiptoes. - George Savile

Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them. - Henry Hoskins

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. - Victor Cousins

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. - H.W. Arnold

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. - Niccolo Machiavelli

I did not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. - Henri Matisse

The future is shaped by your dreams, so stop wasting time and go to sleep! - Unknown

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? - Jean Cocteau

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

She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong. - Mae West

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

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn. - John Wesley

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

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. - Terry Brooks

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove

Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

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

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Holy Bible

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H Glasow

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. - Ernest T. Seton

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. - WC Fields

Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. - Oscar Wilde

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. - Ronald Reagan

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day. - Zig Ziglar

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - C S Lewis

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. - Anita Roddick

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. - John Updike

Change your belief that struggle and striving are necessary for success and watch how smoothly everything can go. - Unknown

Attract what you expect,
Reflect what you desire,
Become what you respect,
Mirror what you admire. - Unknown

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. - Douglas Coupland

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. - Earl Nightingale

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. - Paulo Coelho

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head. - John C Maxwell

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. - Arthur Balfour

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. - Arthur Ashe

The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them. - J.G. Holland

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others. - Amit Abraham

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

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement. - Marie Curie

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

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

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible. - Harvey Mackay