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.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.

G. Moore

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

Mark Twain

I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.

Steven Wright

True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.

K. Knight

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

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

Elizabeth Ashley

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas Edison

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?

Peter

Nobody puts baby in a corner.

Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing (1987)

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Bartender Nat, The Lost Weekend (1945)

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.

Paul, All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Act or accept.

Unknown

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.

Richard Saunders

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Unknown

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.

L.O. Baird

It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

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

Hud Bannon, Hud (1963)

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

Tracy L. McNair

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

Strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

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

Charles Barkley

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Do, or do not. There is no try.

Yoda, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You know, Billy. We blew it.

Wyatt, Easy Rider (1969)

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen Covey

Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !

Helen Benson, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.

Khalil Gibran

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

Dr. Phil

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler