Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anything is possible.

Unknown

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

Napoleon Hill

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

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

Abraham Lincoln

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.

Swami Vivekananda

Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.

Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

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

James Oppenheim

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

Somerset Maugham

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

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

Dick Gregory

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

To go fast, row slowly.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Winston Churchill

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Napoleon Hill

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Earl Nightingale

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Anonymous

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

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

Emily P. Bissell

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

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

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

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

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

Congolese Proverb

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

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

Abraham Lincoln

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Confucius

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

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

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Anthony Robbins

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.

Mark Victor Hansen

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?

Albert Einstein

After your jump, the net appears.

Vincent Lauria

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

George Matthew Adams

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.

John P. Strelecky

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn