Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Anne Armstrong

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

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

Shira Tehrani

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Proverb

Do what you love and the money will follow

Marsha Sinetar

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -

Walt Disney

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

I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

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

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

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

Brigham Young

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Swami Vivekananda

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Anthony Robbins

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Dale Dauten

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

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

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor Frankl

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.

Warren G. Bennis

The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.

Brian Koval

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

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

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching

Satchel Paige

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

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

Anonymous

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Believe in yourself.

Unknown

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.

Robert Frost

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Henry David Thoreau

But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Karl Jaspers

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

Count your blessings.

Og Mandino

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Seneca

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale