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.

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

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

Thomas Edison

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

The show must go on.

Proverb

You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.

Agent J, Men In Black (1997)

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

Anonymous

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.

Steve Martin

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

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

Les Brown

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

One million dollars !

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

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

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

Zig Ziglar

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

George S. Patton

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Tim Blixseth

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Thomas Edison

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

La Rochefoucauld

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

Our intentions create our reality.

Wayne W. Dyer

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

George Eliot

What a dump.

Rosa Moline, Beyond The Forest (1949)

Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.

Ida Corwin, Mildred Pierce (1945)

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

Count Leon D'Algout, Ninotchka (1939)

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Zig Ziglar

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

The road to success is always under construction.

Unknown

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

Let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

Hoke, you're my best friend.

Daisy Werthan, Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

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

Gloria Wandrous, Butterfield 8 (1932)

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Anonymous

The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.

Unknown

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

And that's how you play "Get the Guests".

George, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966)

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

William Feather

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?

Swami Vivekananda

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

Randolph Ray

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

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

Robert Schuller

I know that I will die laughing.

Jeanne Calment

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Voltaire

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.

Brian Koval

Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

W. Clement Stone

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.

Thomas Edison

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Peter F. Drucker

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination

Earl Nightingale

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah G. Holland

Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?

Virginia Hill, Bugsy (1991)

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?

Tommy De Vito, Goodfellas (1990)

When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?

Robert Half