Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

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

Dale Carnegie

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

B.C. Forbes

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?

Josh Hinds

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Napoleon Hill

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

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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

Colin Powell

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

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

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Change comes from within.

Unknown

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Anonymous

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

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

Robert H. Schuller

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

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

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

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

Anthony Robbins

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.

Bill Blackman

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Dennis Waitley

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Rollo May

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't quit.

Unknown

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

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

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Stephen Covey

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.

Swami Vivekananda

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

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

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

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

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

Anonymous

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

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