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.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.

Deborah Whipp

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

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

Robert Schuller

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

Go ahead, make my day.

Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact (1983)

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Bridges

I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.

Prissy, Gone With The Wind (1939)

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

Aristotle

There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.

Crystal Allen, The Women (1939)

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Robert F. Kennedy

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

Unknown

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

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)

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

Strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Elmer Davis

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

Say hello to my little friend !

Tony Montana, Scarface (1983)

Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.

Ray Norda

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.

Nada, They Live (1988)

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Never complain about what you permit.

Mike Murdock

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sarah Bernhardt

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.

Anthony Robbins

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

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.

David Wooderson, Dazed And Confused (1993)

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Albert Einstein

Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !

Mars Blackmon, She's Gotta Have It (1986)

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.

Aaron Altman, Broadcast News (1987)

You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.

Tom Hannah

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

Brian Tracy

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Anonymous

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

You complete me.

Jerry Maguire

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

Blaise Pascal