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.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !

Mame Dennis, Auntie Mame (1958)

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad, The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Paulo Coelho

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Chinese Proverb

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

What do you feel like doing tonight ?

Angie, Marty (1955)

Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

Anna Christie, Anna Christie (1930)

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Dr. Phil

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

Open the pod bay doors,

Dave Bowman, Hal (2001)

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.

Harvey Mackay

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

Emily Dickinson

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.

Unknown

All love is sweet, given or returned.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.

Charlie Allnut, Rose Sayer (1951)

You're tearing me apart !

Jim Stark, Rebel Without Cause (1955)

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

Benjamin Franklin

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?

Steven Wright

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

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

Plato

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

Victor Hugo

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !

Cloakroom Girl, Maudie Triplett (1932)

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

Ron Wild

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

No wire hangers, ever !

Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest (1981)

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care

T. Howell

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Somerset Maugham

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.

Hud Bannon, Hud (1963)

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

The secret of education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Dennis Waitley

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.

William Blake

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

Albert Einstein

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

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki