Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

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

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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

Henry Ford

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Harvey Mackay

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas Edison

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

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

General George S. Patton

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Jerry Greenfield

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.

Bruce Lee

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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

Robert Half

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 1218

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.

Warren G. Bennis

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes

Anything is possible.

Unknown

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

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

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

J.S. Knox

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

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

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

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.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

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

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

Unknown

A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Bertrand Russell

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree