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.

I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.

Isaac Davis, Manhattan (1979)

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

No wire hangers, ever !

Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest (1981)

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Unknown

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

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

Margaret Thatcher

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What's meant to be will always find a way

Trisha Yearwood

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Chinese Proverb

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Gilda, Gilda (1946)

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)

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.

Saudi Arabian Proverb

Can you dig it ?

Youngblood Priest, Superfly (1972)

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

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

William A. Ward

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

Abraham Lincoln

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Anonymous

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !

Rooster Cogburn, True Grit (1969)

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

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.

Paul, All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Josiah G. Holland

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Anonymous

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard B. Sheridan

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

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

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

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

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

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

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)

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

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

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

Zig Ziglar

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

Anonymous

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Robert H. Schuller

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.

Daniel Heinsius

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Dixon Steele, In A Lonely Place (1950)

You complete me.

Jerry Maguire, Jerry Maguire (1996)

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Robert F. Kennedy

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

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

Douglas MacArthur

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Here's Johnny !

Jack Torrance, The Shining (1980)

Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

Count Dracula, Dracula (1931)

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

Stop makin noises like a husband.

Vera, Detour (1945)

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.

Laura Reynolds, Tea And Sympathy (1956)

We'll always have Paris.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy