Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Napoleon Hill

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen

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

Greg Anderson

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.

Robert Half

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Dennis Waitley

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Donald Trump

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Anthony Robbins

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.

Peter Koestenbaum

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Anonymous

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

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Bible

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Napoleon Hill

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

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

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

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?

Joe Namath

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

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

William Yeats

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Proverb

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverb

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Dennis Waitley

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !

Earl Nightingale

If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.

Swami Vivekananda

My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.

Bruce Lee

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

Anonymous