DoolBug Quotes - Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era

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Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Ikhide Oshoma

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

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

Elbert Hubbard

Attitude determines altitude.

Anonymous

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.

Robert Kincaid

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett, White Heat (1949)

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.

Unknown

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There's no crying in baseball !

Jimmy Dugan, A League Of Their Own (1992)

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Veronica Quaife, The Fly (1986)

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

English Proverb

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

Who, being loved, is poor ?

Oscar Wilde

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.

Martin Cruz Smith

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Anonymous

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

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

What hump ?

Igor, Young Frankenstein (1974)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.

Jessica Brumley

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

Oscar Wilde

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Goethe

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

Happy wife, happy life.

Jeff Allen

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Love knows no bounds.

Unknown

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Napoleon Hill

Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Will Moss

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

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

Spanish Proverb

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Martin Brody, Jaws (1975)

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Winston Churchill

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

Anna Christie, Anna Christie (1930)

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Steven Covey

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Steve McCroskey, Airplane (1980)

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

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

Nancy Banks-Smith

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.

Rupert Pupkin, The King Of Comedy (1983)