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

Anthony Robbins

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

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

Du Coeur

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

You create your reality.

Unknown

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

After your jump, the net appears.

Vincent Lauria

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Love conquers all.

Virgil

Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.

Chinese Proverb

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

Nicholas Murray Butler

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

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

It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.

Linda Conway

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.

Madge Norwood, Cabin In the Cotton (1932)

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John Gardner

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.

Waldo Lydecker, Laura (1944)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?

George Eliot

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.

Alice Walker

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

Follow the money.

Deep Throat, All The President's Men (1976)

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.

Pete Zafra

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

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

Harvey Mackay

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Cicero

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Pete Clemenza, The Godfather (1972)

A boy's best friend is his mother.

Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Sanctuary !

Quasimodo, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.

Donald Zochert

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

John Armstrong

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !

Gold Hat, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.

Latin Proverb

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

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