Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

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

W. Clement Stone

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.

A. P. Gouthey

Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Marcus Aurelius

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?

Swami Vivekananda

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

Confucius

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

Bruce Lee

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

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

Robert H. Schuller

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

Thomas Edison

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Anonymous

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen Covey

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.

Robert Half

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

Swami Vivekananda

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.

Su Shi

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Abraham Lincoln

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Mike Wickett

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

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

Ella Williams

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Thomas Dewar