Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Anthony Robbins

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

You can do anything you put your mind to.

Unknown

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.

Brian Koval

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Harvey Mackay

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas Edison

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

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

Seneca

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

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

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Unknown

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

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

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Peter A. Cohen

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

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

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

Dennis Waitley

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Johnette Napolitano

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.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

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

Winston Churchill

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

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

Richard Bach

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

David O. McKay

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Robert Half

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Tristan Bernard

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

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

Dale Carnegie

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams