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.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Scott Hamilton

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

Open the pod bay doors,

Dave Bowman, Hal (2001)

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Swami Vivekananda

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Get away from her, you bitch !

Ripley, Aliens (1986)

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Life is "trying things to see if they work"

Ray Bradbury

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

William Carlos Williams

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.

George Herbert

I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump

A boy's best friend is his mother.

Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

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

George Bernard Shaw

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

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

Richard L. Evans

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

What do you feel like doing tonight ?

Angie, Marty (1955)

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.

W. Mitchell

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon J. Suenes

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendy

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.

W. Clement Stone

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

J. Stephen

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

I need him like the axe needs the turkey.

Jean Harrington, The Lady Eve (1941)

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Edison

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?

Maria, For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

Sophocles

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Albert Careb

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.

Ovid

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

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

Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.

Gloria Wandrous, Butterfield 8 (1932)

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.

Rumi

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

Henry Ford

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

Les Brown

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

T. Howell

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

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

John F. Kennedy

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !

Jerry, Some Like It Hot (1959)

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.

George Bailey, It's Wonderful Life (1946)

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Thomas Edison

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

To God, there is no zero. I still exist.

Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)