Shining Stars

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. - Ben Johnson

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. - Unknown

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. - Walter S Landor

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. - Marian Wright Edelman

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams. - Yiddish proverb

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

There is no elevator to success - you have to take the stairs. - Unknown

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

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate. - Ravi Zacharias

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. - Arthur Ashe

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. - Elizabeth Taylor

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. - Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. - Georg W.F. Hegel

The height of your persistence will decide the height of your success. - Unknown

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. - Serbian Proverb

We need to take dreams more literally, and waking life more symbolically. - Robert Moss

Success if liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

I did not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. - Henri Matisse

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can. - Paul J Meyer

When you make a commitment, you build hope. When you keep it, you build trust. - Unknown

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power

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

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

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

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason. - Jimmy Fallon

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

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? - Logan P Smith

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. - Zig Ziglar

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

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

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B.C. Forbes