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Dreams grow if you grow. - Zig Ziglar

Fortune befriends the bold. - Emily Dickinson

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. - Elvis Presley

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

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. - Edward Moore

Attitude determines the altitude of life. - Edwin L Cole

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. - Kin Hubbard

The best leaders blend courage with compassion. - Robin Sharma

If you desire faith then you have faith enough. - Robert Browning

Don't give up on your dreams - keep sleeping. - Unknown

You have to dream before your dreams can come true. - A P J Abdul Kalam

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use. - Ruth Gordon

With enough courage you can do without a reputation. - Margaret Mitchell

Don't look for perfection. That isn't the goal. - Ash Maurya

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it. - Raymond Chandler

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul A Valery

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. - Irish Murdoch

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. - Albert Camus

You can't let perfection get in the way of getting things done. - Gini Deitrich

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. - Charlie Chaplin

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. - Jodie Foster

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

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. - Sydney Smith

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. - Anthony J D'Angelo

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart

When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr

Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Adams

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams, talk you out of going after yours. - Zig Ziglar

The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion. - Kapil Gupta

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. - Thomas W. Higginson

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. - Colin Powell

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. - Billy Graham

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

You must do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated. - Faydra D. Fields

Your attitude can take you forward or your attitude can take you down. The choice is always yours. - Catherine Pulsifier

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. - Marlon Brando

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

Embrace the present moment fully and with passion, because only through the present moment do we truly live. - Richard L Haight

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. - John Updike

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

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

I never like anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have any temper, you don't have any passion. - Michael Bloomberg

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy. - Nicolas Cage

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

Carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. Courage is the ultimate career move. - Anna Quindlen

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. - John Brown

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up. - Harrison Ford

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. - William Butler Yeats

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

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. - Ben Okri

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. - Wade Boggs