Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

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

Abraham Lincoln

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Greg Anderson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dale Carnegie

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

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

Confucius

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

Harvey Mackay

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

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

Thomas Edison

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

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

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

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

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.

Erich Fromm

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

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

Alan Watts

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Anthony Robbins

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Corneille

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Albert Einstein

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

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

Swami Vivekananda

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

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Zig Ziglar

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

Japanese Proverb

"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.

Joe Flacco

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

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

Robert F. Kennedy

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Seneca

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

Johnette Napolitano

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tse

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Bertrand Russell

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.

Swami Vivekananda

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Harvey Mackay

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

William J. Bennett

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.

Glenn Gould

I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.

Robert T. Kiyosaki