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Happiness is a form of courage. - Holbrook Jackson

Surfers have the most attitude. - Shaun White

Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke

Passion is easy; commitment is tough. - Celia Barbour

Lassitude: A heroic dog with attitude - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson

Be the attitude you want to be around. - Tim DeTellis

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F Kennedy

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. - Lady Murasaki

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Emile Zola

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce

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

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. - Robert A. Heinlein

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

Like the Good Book says, "Patience is a virgin." - Archie Bunker

Punk is defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. - David Byrne

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I wake up with a good attitude every day. Then idiots happen. - Unknown

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's. - Woody Allen

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

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. - Euripides

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

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. - Marcia Wieder

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas

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

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician. - Martin H. Fischer

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

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

Passion: A persistent preoccupation with an idea your boss considers unreasonable - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. - Yves St. Laurent

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. - Earl Nightingale

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. - Tori Amos

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. - Eubie Blake

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day. - Stephen C. Lundin

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. - Douglas Coupland

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. - Joel Osteen

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

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

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. - Colleen Hoover

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When you wake up in the morning, you have two choices: go back to sleep and dream your dreams, or wake up and chase those dreams. - Unknown

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. - Iyanla Vanzant

All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'. - C S Lewis

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. - Albert Einstein

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. - Joe Namath