Prayer for 2020

Genius is eternal patience. - Michelangelo

Follow your dreams, they know the way. - Kobe Yamada

Ambition is not a vice of little people. - Michel de Montaigne

Faith is the willingness to look foolish. - Mark Batterson

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

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

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. - Earl Nightingale

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. - Nancy D Solomon

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb

Desire is the key that opens the door when opportunity knocks. - Unknown

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. - Andy Williams

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

Life was not meant to be easy, but take courage: it can be delightful. - George Bernard Shaw

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Goethe

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. - Bill Bradley

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody was ever meant,
To remember or invent,
What he did with every cent. - Robert Frost

It takes much more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in a creator. - Francis Schaeffer

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

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. - John Webster

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

Our team lives hockey, it dreams hockey, it eats hockey. Now if it could only play hockey. - Milton Berle

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

The resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless. - Joseph B Wirthlin

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. - Jim Hightower

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

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself if you wish to get others. - David Seabury

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

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

He who tells a lie, is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. - Alexander Pope

If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don't have enough goals. - Lou Holtz

Emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark, of apathy into movement without emotion. - Carl Jung

The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team, and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves. - Unknown