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.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Bertrand Russell

Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Leighton

Where's the rest of me ?

Drake McHugh, Kings Row (1942)

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Hard work pays off.

Unknown

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Dennis Waitley

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?

Swami Vivekananda

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

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.

Anonymous

Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl Nightingale

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Norman Vincent Peale

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Dr. Phil

Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.

Hal (V.O.), 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001)

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.

Mark Victor Hansen

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

I think we deserve a break.

Kathie Moffat, Jeff Bailey (1947)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen Covey

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.

Maya Angelou

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.

John Merrick, The Elephant Man (1980)

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

Buddha

And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.

Bree Daniels, Klute (1971)

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Thoreau

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

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

James Allen

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

She's my sister ! She's my daughter !

Evelyn Mulwray, Chinatown (1974)

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Steve McCroskey, Airplane (1980)

Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.

Samantha Juarez

Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.

Gordon Korman

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

Narrator, The Naked City (1948)

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Peter F. Drucker

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Gottfried Wilhem Von Leibniz

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

I don't like your manners.

Vivian Rutledge, Philip Marlowe (1946)

Love is not selfish.

Corinthians

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

William Shakespeare