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.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

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

Plato

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

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

Anthony Robbins

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

Joe Clark

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

Never Quit.

Unknown

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unattributed

Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.

Ray Norda

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverb

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

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

Harvey Mackay

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Winston Churchill

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Norman Vincent Peale

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.

Brian Koval

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)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim Wilde

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Evelyn Mulwray, Chinatown (1974)

It's showtime !

Joe Gideon, All That Jazz (1979)

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)

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

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

Mary Anne Radmacher

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.

La Rochefoucauld

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

William Feather

Better late than never.

Proverb

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

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

Harvey Mackay

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Unknown

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?

Joe Namath

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke