Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.

Bruce Lee

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

Karl A. Menninger

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

Rodney Dangerfield

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.

Ghanaian Proverb

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

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

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes

W. Clement Stone

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Unknown

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

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

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -

Dexter Yager

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

No fate is worse than a life without a love.

Mexican Proverb

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

Robert Schuller

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.

Thomas Edison

Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.

John P. Strelecky

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

To go fast, row slowly.

Norman Vincent Peale

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

Joan Baez

But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.

Karl Jaspers

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.

Swami Vivekananda

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.

Richard Saunders

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Robert F. Kennedy

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley