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.

If they move, kill ' em.

Pike Bishop, The Wild Bunch (1969)

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.

John P. Strelecky

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.

James Baldwin

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.

Leos Janacek

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination

Earl Nightingale

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

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

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)

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard B. Sheridan

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

Ashleigh Brilliant

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Veronica Quaife, The Fly (1986)

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Roy Goodman

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

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

Isaac B. Singer

Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

Count Leon D'Algout, Ninotchka (1939)

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Charles Barkley

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

That love is all there is is all we know of love.

Emily Dickinson

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

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

Scott Hayden

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles F. Kettering

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Richard Cech

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy

I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.

Aaron Altman, Broadcast News (1987)

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Dewar

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Dixon Steele, In A Lonely Place (1950)

You sing-a high.

Baravelli, Connie Bailey (1932)

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Anthony Robbins

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Thoreau

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

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

Japanese Proverb

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.

African Proverb

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Unattributed

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beecher

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill