Smaller Steps

Success is in the details. - Zig Ziglar

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway

Hope is a song in a weary throat. - Pauli Murray

While the heart beats, hope lingers. - Alison Croggon

There is no disinfectant like success. - Daniel J Boorstin

Success covers a multitude of blunders. - George Bernard Shaw

To lose patience is to lose the battle. - Mahatma Gandhi

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

Screw your courage to the sticking-place. - William Shakespeare

When coffee dreams, it dreams of chocolate. - Unknown

Success is due less to ability than to zeal. - Charles Buxton

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. - Unknown

Success lies in the hands of those who want it. - Unknown

The best leaders blend courage with compassion. - Robin Sharma

Success is the ability to rise above principle. - Gerald Barzan

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

Life's failures are stepping stones to success. - Unknown

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

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. - Bob Richards

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. - George Louis de Buffon

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

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

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. - Eric Swensson

Everybody has an addiction, mine happens to be success. - Drake

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell

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

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. - Joseph B Lightfoot

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e e cummings

The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off. - Tacitus

Attitude is not everything, but it's almost everything. - Mary Pipher

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on. - Christopher Walken

The secret of success is to make your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain

The distance between your dreams and reality is called action. - Unknown

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. - Dalai Lama

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Cicero

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dali

The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom is courage. - Carrie Jones

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel. - Napoleon Hill

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. - Conrad Hilton

One often goes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy

What is the most important key to success? Networking - two minds are better than one. - David Foster

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The closest a person ever comes to perfection is when he fills out a job application form. - Stanley Randall

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. - Amos B Alcott

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

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

Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end. - Lori Myers

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Ellen Glasgow

I don't know the key to success but I know the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Unknown

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could. - Paul Hogan

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need. - Bryant McGill

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

A true measure of a man's worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. - Cullen Hightower

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Gen. Colin L. Powell

Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything. - Unknown

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

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

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

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

Fisherman: A sportsman, who sometimes catches a big fish by patience, sometimes by luck, but most often by the tale - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude. - Buddy Valastro

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

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright

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

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. - Mary Parker Follett

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

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. - Anna Held

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sens, regardless of how it turns out. - Vaclav Havel

Four steps to achievement:
1. Plan purposefully.
2. Prepare prayerfully.
3. Proceed positively.
4. Pursue persistently. - William A. Ward

One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world. - Steven Wright

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. - Geraldine Brooks