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.

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.

Jim Gaffigan, @Golden Globes

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unattributed

It's never too late.

Unknown

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Napoleon Hill

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

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

Morrie Schwarz

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

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

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Blaise Pascal

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Gloria Wandrous, Butterfield 8 (1932)

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.

Hud Bannon, Hud (1963)

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.

John P. Strelecky

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

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

Lisa Hoffman

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

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Mark Victor Hansen

God doesn't make junk.

Unknown

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

J.S. Knox

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

I want to be alone.

Grusinskaya, Grand Hotel (1932)

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Oliver Barrett IV, Love Story (1970)

We're sisters under the same mink.

Debby Marsh, The Big Heat (1953)

Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition

Joe Carlozo

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

Oliver, Sons Of The Desert (1933)

For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.

Tom Hopkins

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

Albert Einstein

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !

Taako

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.

C.S. Lewis

I don't like your manners.

Vivian Rutledge, Philip Marlowe (1946)

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.

Norman Vincent Peale

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

One, two, Freddy's coming for you.

Children, A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

Show me the money !

Rod Tidwell, Jerry Maguire (1996)

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Robert H. Schuller

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

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

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

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

You talkin to me ?

Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976)

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

Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

One million dollars !

Dr. Evil, Austin Powers International Man Of Mystery (1997)

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.

Polybius

If a man does his best, what else is there ?

General George S. Patton

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.

Bree Daniels, Klute (1971)

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

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

George Santayana

I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.

Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd (1950)

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson