Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Anonymous

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

Anthony Robbins

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

No one is so poor as an ignorant person.

Hebrew Proverb

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

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

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Norman Vincent Peale

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.

Swami Vivekananda

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

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

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

Unknown

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Don't ever give up.

Unknown

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

Japanese Proverb

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Proverb

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '

Stephen Covey

All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

Helen Keller

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.

Harvey Mackay

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

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

Aristotle

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

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.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

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

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous