Shining Stars

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

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. - Steven Wright

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

Hope - is not a feeling; it is something you do. - Katherine Paterson

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. - Galileo Galilei

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. - Janine di Giovanni

A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. - Walt Whitman

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

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. - Arnold H Glasgow

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

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

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. - Zig Ziglar

Crimes of logic can be more catastrophic for humanity than crimes of passion. - Ravi Zacharias

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

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. - Alisha Tyler

The key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. - Diego Val

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. - John C Maxwell

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

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. - Sylvester Stallone

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. - Samuel Goldwyn

The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. - Alan Watts

The greatest human achievement is not success but facing an unchangeable fate with great courage. - Viktor Frankl

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something. - Unknown

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

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

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. - Amy Tan

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

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the birds have flown. - Henry Ward Beecher

Having a specific meaning and purpose in your life helps to encourage you towards living a fulfilling and inspired life. - Vic Johnson

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success. - Aamir Khan

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

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good. - Dolly Parton

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

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

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. - Norman Vincent Peale