1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
- “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik
- “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones
- “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney
- “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm
- “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell
- “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung
- “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom
- “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill
- “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler
- “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer
- “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels
- “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge
- “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens
- “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch
- “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall
- “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon
- “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler
- “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera
- “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak
- “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.” – Mark Twain
- “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
- “The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.” – Rogers Hornsby
- “The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.” – German Proverb
- “The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis
- “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown
- “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” – Thomas Holcroft
- “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero
- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides
- “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright
- “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham
- “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
- “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings
- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield
- “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison
- “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin
- “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow
- “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare
- “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields
- “The hair is the richest ornament of women.” – Martin Luther
- “Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.” – Shana Alexander
- “Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.” – Unknown
- “It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.” – George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
- “What’s the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.” – From the television show Civil Wars
- “The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow.” – Robert Lynd
- “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I’m not dumb. I also know I’m not blonde.” – Dolly Parton
- “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” – Raymond Chandler
- “Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.” – Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985
- “Babies haven’t any hair:
Old men’s heads are just as bare;
From the cradle to the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave.” – Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein
- “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” – Sam Ewing
- “Women…. Who made ‘em? God must have been a… genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?” – Bo Goldman, “The Start of an Education”, made popular by the movie Scent of a Woman
- “When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.” – Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- “Those curious locks so aptly twin’d,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.” – Thomas Carew
- “If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?” – Lily Tomlin
- “Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen… I adore hair!” – James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Hair
- “Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.” – Fran Lebowitz
- “Beauty draws us with a single hair.” – Alexander Pope
- “Gentlemen prefer blondes… but gentlemen marry brunettes.” – Anita Loos