Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.

Marcus Wareing

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

La Rochefoucauld

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.

Anonymous

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.

Anthony Dalla Villa

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

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Thomas Edison

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

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

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

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

Zig Ziglar

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.

Robert Half

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?

Dale Carnegie

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.

Jordyn Wieber

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

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

Seneca

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.

Tommy Lasorda

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Dennis Waitley

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitley

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

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 a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

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

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

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

Epictetus

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.

John Crowe

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed

Swami Vivekananda

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Jim Rohn

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Chinese Proverb

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

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

Bill Blackman

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

James F. Bymes

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill