Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

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

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

Roll with the punches.

Unknown

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

Mother Teresa

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

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Unknown

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Unknown

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas Edison

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.

Anne Mackay Thompson

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

Michael Johnson

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Unknown

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

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

Marianne Williamson

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.

Robert H. Schuller

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert M. Pirsig

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?

Swami Vivekananda

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

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

Congolese Proverb

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.

John W. Turk

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Anonymous

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor

Vince Lombardi

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton