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.

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

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

Thomas Edison

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Abraham Lincoln

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

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

Henri Nouwen

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

Robert Half

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

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

Alfred Whitefield

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -

Walt Disney

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

Dr. Robert Schuller

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

Terry Malloy, On The Waterfront (1954)

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Nick Richardson

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Friendship is not born of words alone.

Armenian Proverb

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.

J. Stuart Keate

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Rooster Cogburn, True Grit (1969)

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

Mark Victor Hansen

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.

Unknown

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Anonymous

Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.

Sholem Aleichem

Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

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

Henry David Thoreau

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?

The Joker, Batman (1989)

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.

Taako

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.

John Armstrong

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !

Unknown

Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.

Leos Janacek

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

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

William Lowe Bryan

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

Don't hide your light under a bushel.

Bible

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Napoleon Hill

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !

Helen Benson, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

P.A.C. de Beaumarchais

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.

Anonymous

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

H. H. Vreeland

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

Change comes from within.

Unknown

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay