Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Thomas Edison

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Dorothy Day

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.

Zig Ziglar

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

Plato

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

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

Confucius

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

Be Here Now.

Ram Dass

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.

Bruce Lee

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Larry Smith

Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

Mark Victor Hansen

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ernest Hemingway

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

A small house will hold a hundred friends.

African Proverb

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

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

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.

Jim Rohn

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

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

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

Karl Kraus

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

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

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Winston Churchill

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

Vince Lombardi

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Winston Churchill

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

Unattributed

What ever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Eli Cohen

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Michael Johnson

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim