Chesed Week

Fortune favors the bold. - Ennius

Hope is a very unruly emotion. - Gloria Steinem

Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy

What some invent the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift

Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke

Golden dreams make men awake hungry. - Proverb

Dreams don't work unless you do. - John C Maxwell

Patience is the secret to good food. - Gail Simmons

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

Getting caught is the mother of invention. - Robert Byrne

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

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

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. - Suzy Kassem

Don't give up on your dreams - keep sleeping. - Unknown

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. - Catullus

You have to dream before your dreams can come true. - A P J Abdul Kalam

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire. - George Matthew Adams

To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage. - Confucius

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

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

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

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. - Richard Pryor

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent Van Gogh

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Tennyson

Desire is the key that opens the door when opportunity knocks. - Unknown

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. - Unknown

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

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time. - Morgan Freeman

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee

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

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. - Adam Smith

That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them? - Rutherford B. Hayes

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Ingersoll

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. - Hans Selye

The starting point for all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. - Napoleon Hill

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. - Benjamin Franklin

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams. Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. - William Butler Yeats

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

Success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration, and 2 percent attention to detail. - Phil

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. - F Scott Fitzgerald

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Ellen Glasgow

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

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. - Norman Cousins

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. - J Donald Walters

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. - Albert Einstein

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

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

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

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

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions. - Harvey Mackay

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

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. - Mary Parker Follett

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey