Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Anonymous

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Proverb

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Norman Vincent Peale

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain

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

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

Calvin Coolidge

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

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

Brian Tracy

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous

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

Robert H. Schuller

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.

Madonna

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Shultz

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

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

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

Anonymous

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God doesn't make junk.

Unknown

I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work

William Ernest Henley

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

John Wooden

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?

Robert Browning

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

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

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Anonymous

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

Every dog has his day.

Proverb

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Stephen Covey

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

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

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Robert H. Schuller

Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Anatole France

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

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

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale