Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.

Martin Buber

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

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

Mother Teresa

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.

Emma Lazarus

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

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

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Kim Rohn

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Proverb

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Never Quit.

Unknown

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Eli Cohen

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

Robert Schuller

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas Edison

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

Henry Ford

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

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

Winston Churchill

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.

Jordyn Wieber

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

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

A. P. Gouthey

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction

Anne Sullivan

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

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.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

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

Robert H. Schuller

All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.

William James

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale