Shining Stars

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

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

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

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

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. - Mary O'Hare Dumas

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. - John Muir

Life's failures are stepping stones to success. - Unknown

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too. - Chris Brown

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X

Is 'ugh' an emotion? Because I feel it all the time. - Unknown

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude. - Unknown

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust. - Charles R Swindoll

Never let success get to your head. Never let failure get to your health. - Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Hubbard

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

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. - Carrot Top

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. - Sir William Osler

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown

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

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. - Jeremy Bentham

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

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need. - Bryant McGill

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. - Confucius

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

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. - Thomas Carlyle

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. - Patrick Swayze

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base. - William Arthur Ward

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. - Vic Braden

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day. - Zig Ziglar

Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. - Toba Beta

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. - Anita Roddick

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

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