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.

We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.

Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd (1950)

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

William S. Burroughs

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

What's meant to be will always find a way

Trisha Yearwood

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Unknown

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

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

Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Joan Baez

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

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

Robert Half

How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Edmund Spenser

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Stephen Covey

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Anonymous

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up

James Baldwin

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The dingo took my baby !

Lindy Chamberlain, A Cry In The Dark (1988)

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.

John P. Strelecky

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter F. Drucker

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

Anonymous

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

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Thomas Edison

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

After your jump, the net appears.

Vincent Lauria

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Anonymous

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

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

Zig Ziglar

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous

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

Thomas Edison

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Lou Gehrig, The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)

It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Pete Clemenza, The Godfather (1972)

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We're sisters under the same mink.

Debby Marsh, The Big Heat (1953)

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

Narrator, The Naked City (1948)

That dirty, double-crossin' rat !

Bert Harris, Blonde Crazy (1931)

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !

Oliver, Sons Of The Desert (1933)

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1990)

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?

Frances Marion

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian 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

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

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

William B. Sprague

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Dixon Steele, In A Lonely Place (1950)

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace

Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.

Knute Rockne, Knute Rockne All American (1940)

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

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

Aesop

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.

Thomas Trahern

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

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

Thomas Edison