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.

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

Chance is the fool's name for fate.

Guy Holden, The Gay Divorcee (1934)

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

You make me want to be a better man.

Melvin Udall, As Good As It Gets (1997)

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Hunker down.

Unknown

My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !

Mona Lisa Vito, My Cousin Vinny (1992)

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

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

Harvey Mackay

Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.

Laura Reynolds, Tea And Sympathy (1956)

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.

Aristotle

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

David Levesque

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

Ricky Fitts, American Beauty (1999)

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

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

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

Henry Ford

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

General Peter Schoomaker

Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.

Ayn Rand

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease

Voltaire

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind (1939)

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

Nobody puts baby in a corner.

Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing (1987)

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

Emily P. Bissell

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

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

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

One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.

Harvey Mackay

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

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

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6: 34

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.

Young Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump (1994)

You complete me.

Jerry Maguire

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Maria Montessori

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

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

Elbert Hubbard

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 514

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

Unknown

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

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

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Dennis Waitley

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.

John Wade Prentice, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

John Donne

Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.

Donald Zochert

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.

Anonymous

I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1974)

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

Anna Christie, Anna Christie (1930)

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !

John McClane, Die Hard (1988)

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler