Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig

Mark Twain

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

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

Winston Churchill

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Zig Ziglar

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Elbert Hubbard

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Indian Proverb

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

Anonymous

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

James F. Bell

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 person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

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

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Art Linkletter

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Anonymous

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?

Peter

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

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

Korean Proverb

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

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

Carrie Fisher

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Anonymous

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Don't quit.

Unknown