Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Elbert Hubbard

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Live with passion !

Anthony Robbins

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

John W. Turk

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

Mark Twain

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Karl A. Menninger

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Blood Of The Martyr

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

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

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

Embrace your inner voice.

John P. Strelecky

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

Abraham Lincoln

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Gary Marshall

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.

Emma Lazarus

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Robert H. Schuller

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Anonymous

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

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

Napoleon Hill

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas Edison

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.

Erich Fromm

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.

Anthony Pagano

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Will Rogers

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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

Peace Pilgrim

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

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

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley