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 is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Colin Wilson

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse

Unknown

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

We're sisters under the same mink.

Debby Marsh, The Big Heat (1953)

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?

Jim Rohn

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

William Shedd

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)

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Thoreau

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E.B. White

These go to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel, This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

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

Somerset Maugham

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Brian Tracy

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

Anonymous

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J.M. Barrie

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Zig Ziglar

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Storm Jameson

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison

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

John Wicker

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

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

Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

Denzel Washington, @Golden Globes

And that's how you play "Get the Guests".

George, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966)

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Anonymous

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.

Prissy, Gone With The Wind (1939)

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

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

Ray Norda

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

God doesn't make junk.

Unknown

Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.

Jean Anouilh

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

I want to be alone.

Grusinskaya, Grand Hotel (1932)

Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.

Hope Floats

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

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

Zen Proverb

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

English Proverb

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

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

Anthony Robbins

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it

Dennis P. Kimbro

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.

Agent J, Men In Black (1997)

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Earl Nightingale

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson