Old Crutch Shelf

Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No furniture so charming as books. - Sydney Smith

Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke

Dreams don't work unless you do. - John C Maxwell

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. - Desmond Tutu

Advertisers are the merchants of dreams. - Unknown

We can close the books on infectious diseases. - William H Stewart

Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk. - Charan Singh

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. - Pat Riley

Quantum Particles: The dreams that stuff is made of - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. - A P J Abdul Kalam

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

Be of good courage and the Lord will strengthen your heart. - The Bible

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. - Richard Pryor

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. - Spinoza

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

Leaders have the courage to make unpopular decisions and gut calls. - Jack Welch

My problem with reading books is that I get distracted. By other books. - Unknown

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. - Joseph Addison

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, and had a Good Friday. - Billy Crystal

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

Courage, moderation, self-control - above all, the peace of a contented mind. - Lillian Watson

Truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent. - William Blake

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Ingersoll

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. - Mac McCleary

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. - Stanislaus I

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. - Demetri Martin

Perfection is my motto. Percentage is my middle name. Walk alone and wait for no man. - Unknown

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. - Angela Thirkell

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C S Lewis

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

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

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. - Anita Baker

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Joseph Addison

Dreams are what give us purpose, because without dreams we have no hope, and without hope we have no purpose. - Unknown

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

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

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. - Jonathan Swift

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

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family. - Reed Markham

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. - William Faulkner

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T S Eliot

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. - Les Brown

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. - Larry Page

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

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body. - Christian Louboutin

I believe there's an Almighty, and I believe the Almighty's great gift to each man and woman in this world is the desire to be free. - George W Bush

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner