Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

You create your reality.

Unknown

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.

Su Shi

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

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

Albert Einstein

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.

Anonymous

No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Robert H. Schuller

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

Martha Washington

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

Mark Victor Hansen

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

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

Martha Washington

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

Winston Churchill

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

Jim Rohn

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

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

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Donald Williams

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.

Robert Half

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

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

George S. Patton

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Crash Davis

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

Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.

Blaine Lee

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 not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Thomas Dewar

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

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

Dale Carnegie

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

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

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

St. Francis

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

Joan Baez

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Congolese Proverb

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Anonymous

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Anonymous

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.

Swami Vivekananda

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy