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.

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

Earl Nightingale

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Lou Holtz

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Donald Curtis

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

Georgia, love is for the very young.

Jonathan Shields, The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Jackie Joyner Kersee

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Crash Davis, Bull Durham (1988)

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.

Marcel Proust

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

Here's looking at you, kid.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

How do I look ?

Holly Golightly, Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.

Georgette Mosbacher

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

William Arthur Ward

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

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.

Collin McCarty

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Shane ! Shane ! Come back !

Joey Starrett, Shane (1953)

Go ahead, make my day.

Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact (1983)

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?

Ensign Pulver, Mister Roberts (1955)

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

James Bond, Goldfinger (1964)

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

Mac, you ever been in love ?

Wyatt Earp, Mac (1946)

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

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

Levell Edwards

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beecher

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

If you build it, he will come.

Field of Dreams

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

Be Here Now.

Ram Dass

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

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

Plautus

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson