DoolBug Quotes - Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era

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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

It's showtime !

Joe Gideon, All That Jazz (1979)

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Anonymous

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.

Pete Clemenza, The Godfather (1972)

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

Do you want a leg or a breast ?

Frances Stevens, To Catch A Thief (1955)

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.

Ken Robbins

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Rumi

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Dr. Phil

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Unknown

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.

Shug, The Color Purple (1985)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

Mike Conovan, Pat And Mike (1952)

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You're good, but you're going to be great.

Collin McCarty

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

Buddha

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Napolean Bonaparte Washington Irving

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

William Osler

Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.

Muda Saint Michael

Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.

Unknown

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?

Jack Byrnes, Meet The Parents (2000)

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

It's never too late.

Unknown

Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?

Lady Lou, She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.

Michael Kelly, Champion (1949)

Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

They say you were shot in the tabloids.

Nora Charles, Nick Charles (1934)

He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?

Tanya, Touch Of Evil (1958)

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.

Swami Vivekananda

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

And that's how you play "Get the Guests".

George, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966)

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Unknown

Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick