Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

Love conquers all.

Virgil

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Unattributed

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

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

Les Brown

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Zig Ziglar

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

After your jump, the net appears.

Vincent Lauria

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

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

Storm Jameson

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Roll with the punches.

Unknown

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig

Mark Twain

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

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

Edmund Burke

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.

Mark Twain

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.

T. Dufek

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

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

W. Somerset Manghan

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

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

Canary Island Proverb

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

P. T. Barnum

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.

William Wordsworth

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Japanese Proverb

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

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

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

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

Dennis Waitley

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.

Swami Vivekananda