Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

Clark Moustakas

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Eileen Caddy

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

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

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

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Dennis Waitley

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

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

Earl Nightingale

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

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Michael Johnson

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Anonymous

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

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

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

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

Voltaire

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Anonymous

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Anthony Robbins

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Zig Ziglar

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.

Mark Victor Hansen

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Seneca

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

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

We get to make a living , we give to make a life.

Winston Churchill

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Winston Churchill

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

Do what you love and the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

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

William Shakespeare

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

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

Robert Half

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

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

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

No one is so poor as an ignorant person.

Hebrew Proverb

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Swami Vivekananda

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Unknown

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.

William E. Gladstone

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn