Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

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

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

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

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

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Irish Proverb

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Chinese Proverb

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.

Abraham Maslow

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

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.

Larry Page

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

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

William Cowper

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

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

Swami Vivekananda

What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash

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

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Indian Proverb

Success is a journey not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

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

Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.

Martin Buber

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

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

Tristan Bernard

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Anonymous

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?

Peter

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.

Martha Washington

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.

Stephen Covey

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !

George Jacques Danton

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Gary Marshall

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

Karl Kraus

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

Dale Carnegie

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney