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.

You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?

Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry (1971)

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

Anonymous

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

Dr. Phil

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Dean Wormer, National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

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

Pietro Aretino

You create your reality.

Unknown

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

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

Unknown

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.

Samantha Juarez

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad, The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Kyle Schmidt

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

Thornton Wilder

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

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

Stephen Covey

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Morgan

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

When Harry Met Sally

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

William Bridges

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.

Margaret Thatcher

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.

Hubert Hawkins, The Court Jester (1956)

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

Dennis Waitley

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".

Brian Tracy

I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?

Rita, Cameraman (1982)

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Bond. James Bond.

James Bond, Dr No (1962)

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Good morning, Vietnam !

Adrian Kronauer, Good Morning (1987)

Hey, Bud, lets party !

Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

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

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Abraham Lincoln

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dennis Waitley

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Corinthians

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.

Soren Kierkegaard

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

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

Deborah Whipp

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

Robert H. Schuller

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

Winston Churchill

Shut up and deal.

Fran Kubelik, The Apartment (1960)

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Zig Ziglar

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Plato

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry