Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.

C.S. Lewis

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

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

Dottie Walters

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

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

There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

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

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas Edison

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Stephen Covey

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Donald Curtis

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Lawrence LeShan

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

Tough times never last but tough people do.

Robert Schuller

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

Albert Einstein

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

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

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

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

Henry Ford

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

Plutarch

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Albert Einstein

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

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

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?

Albert Einstein

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

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

Alan Watts

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.

German Proverb

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

Henry David Thoreau

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

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

Ron Wild

Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.

Blaine Lee

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

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Unknown

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

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

Lou Holtz

Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.

Swami Vivekananda

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Zig Ziglar

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

Assyrian Proverb

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

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer