Open Air Reader

Hope is the dream of the waking man. - French Proverb

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. - Elvis Presley

Hope is passion for what is possible. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

I hope the guy who invented AutoCorrect burns in Hello! - Unknown

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire

Be of good courage and the Lord will strengthen your heart. - The Bible

Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears. - Unknown

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. - Arthur Koestler

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. - Euripides

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Homer Simpson

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. - Erma Bombeck

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. - Roger von Oech

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude to the problem. - Unknown

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden

Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent. - William Blake

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. - Louise Bogan

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

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. - Conrad Hilton

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

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

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

People just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius

Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm, and ideas about how to solve that problem. - Laura Fitton

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. - Larry Page

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

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. - John Brown

Perseverance: outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. - R.S. Guthrie