Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

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

Wayne Gretzky

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

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

Dennis Waitley

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

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

W. Clement Stone

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

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

Richard Bach

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Live with passion !

Anthony Robbins

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

Isaac Newton

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

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

Swami Vivekananda

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

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.

Lee Iacocca

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

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

J. Richard Clarke

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

How far you go in life depends on your 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

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

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

Harold R. McAlindon

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 514

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

None are homely who smile.

Robert Half

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Earl Nightingale

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Bymes

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Tom Hannah

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Embrace your inner voice.

John P. Strelecky

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

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

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt