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.

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Non !

Marcel Marceau, Silent Movie (1976)

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

J.S. Knox

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.

Freaks, Freaks (1932)

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.

David Wooderson, Dazed And Confused (1993)

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Mother Teresa

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

Cutter, Gunga Din (1939)

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !

Oliver, Sons Of The Desert (1933)

You complete me.

Jerry Maguire, Jerry Maguire (1996)

There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.

William Wordsworth

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

If you feel you have no faults there's another one.

Anonymous

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.

George Bailey, It's Wonderful Life (1946)

Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.

Stephen Covey

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Rollo May

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

Love, two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

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

Steve McCroskey, Airplane (1980)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !

Carl Spackler, Caddyshack (1980)

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.

Gilda, Gilda (1946)

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?

Marian Wright Edelman

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Thomas Parnell

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

Sign: "Illiterate? Write for free help."

Unknown

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St Francis De Sales

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Richard Bach

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Unknown

I am your number one fan.

Annie Wilkes, Misery (1990)

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David Riklan

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Albert Einstein

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Unknown

Houston, we have a problem.

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 (1944)

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

Abraham Lincoln

You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?

Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry (1971)

My mission was to take the invisible, the unloved and make them the heroes.

Ryan Murphy, @Golden Globes

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb