Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

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

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

Do or do not, there is no try.

Yoda

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

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

Bill Blackman

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

Robert H. Schuller

Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

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

Aristotle

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Napoleon Hill

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

Anne Armstrong

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.

Hubert Bonner

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

Somerset Maugham

The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Anthony Robbins

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

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

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

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Anonymous

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

La Rochefoucauld

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

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

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

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

Anthony Robbins

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

Joe Flacco

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Seneca

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Dennis Waitley

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

Paul Sweeney

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas Edison

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Dan Stanford

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Dennis Waitley

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes

Thomas Jefferson

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

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Anonymous

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.

B.C. Forbes

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

Gerald J. Simmons

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

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

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Aristotle

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

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