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.

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

Nancy Banks-Smith

They call me Mister Tibbs !

Virgil Tibbs, In The Heat Of The Night (1967)

Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !

Cloakroom Girl, Maudie Triplett (1932)

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Pat Carroll

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

You create your reality.

Unknown

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".

Norman Vincent Peale

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Anne Dillard

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

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

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Thoreau

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.

Mark Victor Hansen

If you build it, he will come.

Field of Dreams

If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.

The Politician, The Great McGinty (1940)

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

There's no crying in baseball !

Jimmy Dugan, A League Of Their Own (1992)

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.

Conrad Hilton

Attica ! Attica !

Sonny Wortzik, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

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

Harvey Mackay

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Anthony Robbins

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

English Proverb

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?

Robert Half

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

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

Mark Victor Hansen

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Robert H. Schuller

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.

George Carlin

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Washington

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Napolean Bonaparte Washington Irving

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.

Lorelei, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.

Michael Norwood

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Unknown

Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Richard L. Evans

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will