Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

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

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

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

Joan Baez

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

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

Louis Pasteur

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

George Catlin

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Earl Nightingale

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

Winston Churchill

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Waitley

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

Success leaves clues.

Jim Rohn

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

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Unknown

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

Mary Anne Radmacher

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.

Unknown

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

General George S. Patton

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas Edison

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.

William Bridges

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.

George DeVack

If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Anonymous

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.

Swami Vivekananda

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Karl A. Menninger

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Abraham Lincoln

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition

Joe Carlozo

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson