Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Swami Vivekananda

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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

Napoleon Hill

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Abraham Lincoln

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !

Harvey Mackay

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

William Shakespeare

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

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

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

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

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

John Davidson Rockefeller

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tse

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas Edison

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Zig Ziglar

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Anthony Robbins

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

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

Thomas Edison

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Chinese Proverb

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.

Marcus Wareing

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

Archimedes

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

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

Warren G. Bennis

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.

Warren G. Bennis

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis L. Mann

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

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

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb