Thinking Outside The Garage

Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen

Success is the ability to rise above principle. - Gerald Barzan

I do today from memory what yesterday I did in passion. - Gerald Barzan

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. - Rickey Henderson

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. - Arthur Miller

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. - Henry Ford

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. - Robert Frost

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

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

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

If you blame others for your failures, do you also credit them for your successes? - Unknown

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. - Unknown

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. - Elias Canetti

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. - Hong Kong Proverb

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings

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

You must do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated. - Faydra D. Fields

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. - Gordon Parks

I have an abundance mentality. When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. - Stephen Covey

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

Poverty: 1. A state of mind sometimes induced by a neighbour's new car; 2. One thing that money can't buy. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang

My girlfriend wants me to stain the new wooden fence in her backyard. So I'm going to eat spaghetti over it for a few weeks. - Rick Lantern

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

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. - Paul Sweeney

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, "I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out." - Steven Wright

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. - Joseph Addison

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward. - Shannon L. Alder

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation. - John Wooden