Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.

Thomas J. Watson

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

Welsh Proverb

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Barbara Winter

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

Laughter is the best medicine.

Unknown

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

Vince Lombardi

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 514

If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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

Bill Cosby

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Unknown

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

Don't quit.

Unknown

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Unknown

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

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

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

W. Somerset Manghan

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

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

Anonymous

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

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

Deborah Whipp

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Karl Jaspers

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

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

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

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

Albert Einstein

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.

Latin Proverb

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

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

William Arthur Ward

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill