Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

I light my candle from their torches.

Robert Burton

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

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

Karl A. Menninger

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

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

If you feel you have no faults there's another one.

Anonymous

You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.

Bruce Lee

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

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

Henry Ford

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

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

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

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

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

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

Anthony Robbins

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Bridges

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.

George Bernard Shaw

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.

C.S. Lewis

We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Dennis Waitley

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

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

W. Somerset Manghan

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.

Greek Proverb

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?

John P. Strelecky

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.

Swami Vivekananda

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

Better late than never.

Proverb

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken