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.

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Anne Armstrong

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

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

Madge Norwood, Cabin In the Cotton (1932)

Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".

Norman Vincent Peale

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Melba Colgrove

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

John Keats

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.

Michael Polanyi

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.

Dalai Lama

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Know thyself.

Socrates

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time

Marion Wright Edelman

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

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David Riklan

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

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

Peter

I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.

Shug, The Color Purple (1985)

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

King Solomon

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Swami Vivekananda

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Samuel Coleridge

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.

UB40

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Morrie Schwarz

I think we deserve a break.

Kathie Moffat, Jeff Bailey (1947)

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

James Thomas

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Rosebud.

Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane (1941)

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Baiyun

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.

Isaac Davis, Manhattan (1979)

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

What do you feel like doing tonight ?

Angie, Marty (1955)

All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -

Walt Disney

Let's go home, Debbie.

Ethan Edwards, The Searchers (1956)

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

Denzel Washington, @Golden Globes

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.

The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio (1940)

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

Robert Frost

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey