Confined By Walls

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Where flowers bloom, so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud

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

Success is not forever, and failure's not fatal. - Don Shula

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

There is little success where there is little laughter. - Andrew Carnegie

Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. - Henry Ford

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. - Henry Ford

There is no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary. - Donald Kimball

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb

You can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. - Paulo Coelho

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Holy Bible

Success is a two-bladed golden sword - it knights one and stabs one at the same time. - Mae West

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way. - Paul Harvey

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

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

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope. - Manel Loureiro

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. - Catherine Zeta-Jones

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas

Your belief in yourself and your company and your place in the world may be the main determination of your success. - Tom Butler-Bowdon

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

A manager is a title, it does not guarantee success. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions will result in successes. - Catherine Pulsifer

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper. - Steven Wright

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound. - Unknown

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. - Newell D. Hillis

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames