Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.

Thomas Edison

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !

Swami Vivekananda

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.

Francis Wilson

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.

W. Clement Stone

Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.

Unknown

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Oscar Wilde

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

James Oppenheim

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Stephen Covey

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.

Harvey Mackay

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.

Swami Vivekananda

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

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

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.

Mother Teresa

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

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Dennis Waitley

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

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

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.

Korean Proverb

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

Winston Churchill

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?

Henry David Thoreau

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas Edison

Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Anonymous

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?

Jim Rohn

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield

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

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Lawrence LeShan

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Anonymous

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas Edison