Smaller Steps

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

Dreams grow if you grow. - Zig Ziglar

We can hope while we cope. - Unknown

Ambition lubricates the mind. - Unknown

Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocles

Hope is a song in a weary throat. - Pauli Murray

The great gift of Easter is hope. - Basil C Hume

The secret of success is sincerity. - Jean Giraudoux

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y. - Unknown

There is no success without hardship. - Sophocles

Hope is passion for what is possible. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. - Unknown

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

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

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

Ambition is destruction, only competence matters. - Jill Robinson

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George S Patton

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

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - J K Rowling

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it. - Raymond Chandler

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X

Self-acceptance leads to success, not the other way around. - Deepak Chopra

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

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

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

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. - Zig Ziglar

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. - Arthur Ashe

Sometimes true courage in life is just being a decent human being. - Unknown

For we are such stuff as dreams are made on, rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Cicero

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. - Meister Eckhart

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. - Jim Henson

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. - Zig Ziglar

A strong positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. - Joyce Brothers

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day He created spring. - Bernard Williams

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. - Elbert Hubbard

You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

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

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. - George Burns

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

The secret of success is to go from mistake to mistake without losing your enthusiasm. - Unknown

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. - Charles the Bold

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. - Unknown

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles H Spurgeon

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. - Norman Vincent Peale

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. - Dorothy L. Sayers

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Walter Scott

I don't know the key to success but I know the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Unknown

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. - Allen Klein

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

It's better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns

The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people. - Unknown

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. - John Madden

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Gen. Colin L. Powell

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you're in the world. - Bernie Taupin

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie

Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. - Toba Beta

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. - Bo Bennett

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

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

I felt an earnest and humble desire, and I shall do it till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. - Charles Dickens

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

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

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. - Carl Jung

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. - Kevin Spacey

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. - Harold S Geneen

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. - Unknown

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.' - George Washington Carver

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

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington