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.

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

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

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

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David Riklan

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

Carlos Castaneda

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.

Ethel Thayer, On Golden Pond (1981)

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

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With The Wind (1939)

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

Come, let us make love deathless.

Herbert Trench

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Vito Corleone, The Godfather (1972)

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

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

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

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

Thomas Edison

Warriors, come out to play !

Luther, The Warriors (1979)

Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

Ellie Andrews, It Happened One Night (1934)

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.

Mingjiao

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?

Cinderella

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !

Cloakroom Girl, Maudie Triplett (1932)

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

Love is not selfish.

Corinthians

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Orlando Battista

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.

Steven Wright

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

Hi-Yo, Silver !

The Lone Ranger, The Lone Ranger (1956)

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

You talkin to me ?

Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976)

Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.

Ashley Brilliant

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

Tom Joad, The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)

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

Victor Hugo

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

Narrator, The Naked City (1948)

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron