Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

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

Mary Norton Gordon

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.

Swami Vivekananda

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Anonymous

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Abraham Lincoln

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

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

Anonymous

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

Blackhawk

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

Japanese Proverb

History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !

George Jacques Danton

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!

Anthony Robbins

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

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

Anonymous

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Traditional Proverb

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Dennis Waitley

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

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

Albert Einstein

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Brian Tracy

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

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

Albert Einstein

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

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

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

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

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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

Ann Landers

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.

George Catlin

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret B. Runbeck

I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

Joe Flacco

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

Harvey Mackay

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins