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.

Forget about it.

Donnie Brasco, Donnie Brasco (1997)

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction

Anne Sullivan

The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.

Robert Half

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.

Anonymous

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.

Ashley Brilliant

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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

Otomo No Yakamochi

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Goethe

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

Change comes from within.

Unknown

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.

Gilda, Gilda (1946)

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Unknown

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Veronica Quaife, The Fly (1986)

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !

Principal Richard Vernon, The Breakfast Club (1985)

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.

William George Jordan

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Jim Horning

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

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

Anonymous

Say hello to my little friend !

Tony Montana, Scarface (1983)

My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump (1994)

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

Huw Morgan, How Green Was My Valley (1941)

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

John Bulwer

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -

Dexter Yager

Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !

Gold Hat, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Swami Vivekananda

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

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

Polybius

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

Nobody puts baby in a corner.

Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing (1987)

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Maya Angelou

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Dennis Waitley

O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.

Robert Burns

Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?

Mildred, Johnny Strabler (1953)

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

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

Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.

Unknown

This is nothing !

Stanley Motss, Wag The Dog (1997)

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

King Mongkut, The King And (1956)

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.

Micheal Pritchard

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

Charles Dickens

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul McCartney

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Anthony Robbins