Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Lord Chesterfield

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

E. E. Hale

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

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

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.

Indian Proverb

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

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

Mark Twain

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

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

Harvey Mackay

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Winston Churchill

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.

Christy Borgeld

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dennis Waitley

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.

William Bridges

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

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

Anonymous

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

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

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Anonymous

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

Unattributed

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

Change your thoughts, change your life.

James Allen

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

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

Swami Vivekananda

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.

Anthony Robbins

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

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

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

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

Marcus Aurelius

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Earl Nightingale

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:15

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

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

Unattributed

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

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

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Robert Half

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein