Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Anonymous

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

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

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

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

Anonymous

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.

Brian Koval

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

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

Elbert Hubbard

You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.

Tom Hannah

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time

Marion Wright Edelman

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Unknown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Seize the day.

Unknown

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."

Joe Flacco

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

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

Alfred Whitefield

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Unknown

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Unknown

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie

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

Dennis Waitley

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Barbara Jordan

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

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.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

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

Dorothy Day

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

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

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.

William Bridges

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

Dennis Waitley

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda