Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

The book you don't read cant help.

Jim Rohn

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes

Brian Tracy

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic Proverb

Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

Stephen Covey

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

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

Berthold Auerbach

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.

Bonaro W. Overstreet

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Rollo May

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

Anonymous

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

Your attitude determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas Edison

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 crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

David Thomas

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

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

Bill Cosby

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.

Latin Proverb

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

Better late than never.

Proverb

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

William Arthur Ward

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Mark Twain

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Unknown

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Where there is love there is no darkness.

Burundi Proverb

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

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Harris

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

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

Thomas Jefferson

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

In love beggar and king are equal.

Indian Proverb

Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

Stephen Covey

Success is never wondering what if.

Karrie Huffman

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Anonymous

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

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

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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