Chesed Week

Reach perfection. - Baltasar Gracián

Fortune befriends the bold. - Emily Dickinson

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

Happiness is a form of courage. - Holbrook Jackson

Passion is easy; commitment is tough. - Celia Barbour

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace. - John Cowper Powys

Attitude determines the altitude of life. - Edwin L Cole

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. - Oscar Wilde

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau

The best leaders blend courage with compassion. - Robin Sharma

Success is much more a matter of courage than ability. - Joe Segal

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

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. - H.W. Shaw

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e e cummings

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

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. - Elias Canetti

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

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. - Albert Einstein

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. - Thomas Edison

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

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

Enthusiasm is catching, so surround yourself with enthusiastic people. - Norman Vincent Peale

Life was not meant to be easy, but take courage: it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

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

The way of the dreamer is difficult - but anything less is hardly living at all! - Bruce Wilkinson

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Adams

It is better to aim at perfection and miss it than to aim at imperfection and hit it. - Thomas Watson

Perfection is my motto. Percentage is my middle name. Walk alone and wait for no man. - Unknown

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. - Earl Nightingale

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou

My mother had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer. - Bill Clinton

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical. - Mark Batterson

Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams. - Brad Sugars

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

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

I am happier when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. - John von Neumann

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes. - Mary Tyler Moore

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Joseph Addison

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

Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do. - Mark Batterson

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. - Dale Carnegie

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. - Corra May Harris

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler

If we don't redouble our efforts to increase incentives for invention, this country's going to lose its edge. - Dean Kamen

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Francis Bacon

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family. - Reed Markham

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. - Lin Yutang

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

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. - Les Brown

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

When people come alongside us during difficult times to give us renewed courage, a renewed spirit, renewed hope - that's encouragement. - David Jeremiah

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. - Wade Boggs