Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

William B. Sprague

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

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

Abraham Lincoln

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

Joan Baez

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Anthony Robbins

I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.

Bruce Lee

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.

Carlo Brumat

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Anthony Robbins

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

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

Stephen Covey

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

Change comes from within.

Unknown

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

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

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

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

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

Anonymous

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Thomas Edison

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

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

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Dennis Waitley

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Irish Proverb

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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

Ron Wild

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

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

Burton Hills

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

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

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

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

Charles Buxton

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

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

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

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

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