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.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

William Shakespeare

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

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

Dolly Parton

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

Isaac B. Singer

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !

Mars Blackmon, She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

Dorothy Gale, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

Dreams don't work unless you do.

John C. Maxwell

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

It's showtime !

Joe Gideon, All That Jazz (1979)

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

T. Howell

If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi, Gandhi (1982)

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

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

Happy wife, happy life.

Jeff Allen

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

Help me ! Help me !

Andre Delambre, The Fly (1958)

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

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

Horace Mann

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Unknown

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.

Vicar, Mrs Miniver (1942)

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Maximus, Gladiator (2000)

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Who's on first.

Dexter, The Naughty Nineties (1945)

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

Margo Channing, All About Eve (1950)

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

Brian Andres

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.

Terry McKay, An Affair To Remember (1957)

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Somerset Maugham

Bring out the gimp.

Zed, Pulp Fiction (1994)

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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)

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

When Harry Met Sally

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

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Marie Osmond

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

James Thomas

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Blanche Dubois, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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

Abraham Lincoln

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau