Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.

C.N. Bovee

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.

Unattributed

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

We get to make a living , we give to make a life.

Winston Churchill

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

Berthold Auerbach

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Eileen Caddy

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

George Catlin

I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.

Swami Vivekananda

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

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

Japanese Proverb

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

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

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Anonymous

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

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

Chuck Sigars

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

What ever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.

W. Somerset Manghan

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Anthony Robbins

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

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

You're as old as you behave.

Harvey Mackay

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Bible

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

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

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

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Proverb

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

Saudi Arabian Proverb

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

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

Conrad Hilton

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Reach for the stars.

Unknown