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.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

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

Thomas Edison

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

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

Japanese Proverb

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1974)

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

Your attitude determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Dennis Waitley

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

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

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

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 is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

Have you checked the children lately ?

Curt Duncan, When A Stranger Calls (1979)

Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.

Tarzan, Tarzan The Ape Man (1932)

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.

When Harry Met Sally

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?

Emily Bronte

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Realize that you are capable of working miracles of your own making. Remember that opportunities have a reason for knocking on your door, and the right ones are there for the taking.

Collin McCarty

Always do the right thing.

Da Mayor, Mookie (1989)

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Morrie Schwarz

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Charles Barkley

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Stop makin noises like a husband.

Vera, Detour (1945)

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

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

Knute Rockne, Knute Rockne All American (1940)

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J. Watson

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.

Steven Wright

Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !

John McClane, Die Hard (1988)

The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.

John Eldredge

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1974)

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sanctuary !

Quasimodo, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care

T. Howell

Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.

Unknown

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

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)

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

Open the pod bay doors,

Dave Bowman, Hal (2001)

Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The Politician, The Great McGinty (1940)

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E.B. White

Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.

William Blake

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.

Unknown

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

Rhett Butler