Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

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

Seneca

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

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

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

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

General Douglas MacArthur

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Unknown

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Anonymous

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Anonymous

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

John W. Turk

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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

Suellen Fried

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Anonymous

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

Isaac Newton

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

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

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

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

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

Rodney Dangerfield

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

Anonymous

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Unknown

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Warren G. Bennis

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

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

John Wicker

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

Thomas J. Watson

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown