Ain't Mowing the Lawn Anymore

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

There is no disinfectant like success. - Daniel J Boorstin

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

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch

Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. - Eric Swensson

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough

Only send out into the world that which you hope to receive in return. - Peter Legge

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. - Nicholas Sparks

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them. - Earvin "Magic" Johnson

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. - Audrey Hepburn

The best leaders incentivize, inspire and empower their teams to be creative and innovative. - Michael Bloomberg

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. - David Bly

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

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

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. - Confucius

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - George S Patton

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. - I Ching

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow. - Terrence Howard

The bulletin board on the lawn of a New Jersey Church reads "We reserve the right to accept everybody." - John Kazmark

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. - Charles H Spurgeon

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sens, regardless of how it turns out. - Vaclav Havel

Hope gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better. - Francois Jacob