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.

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Would you like to play a game ?

Joshua The Computer, Wargames (1983)

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Margaret Anderson

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

James Bond, Goldfinger (1964)

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

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

Understand that increased difficulty brings you nearer to the truth of how to survive it and get beyond it.

Collin McCarty

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Robert H. Schuller

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

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

Helen Keller

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beecher

If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.

The Politician, The Great McGinty (1940)

I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it

Mary Norton Gordon

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

You talkin to me ?

Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Henry Drummond

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Stephen Covey

Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !

Mandy Forkner

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

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

Douglas MacArthur

They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !

William Wallace, Braveheart (1995)

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

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

W.C Fields

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.

Marcus Wareing

The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.

God, Oh God (1977)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.

Maya Angelou

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

Anonymous

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

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

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

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Tom Hannah

The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

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

Marcel Proust

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

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

Dale Carnegie

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

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

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

Have you checked the children lately ?

Curt Duncan, When A Stranger Calls (1979)

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !

John McClane, Die Hard (1988)

Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.

Dean Marshall

Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.

Unknown

Union gives strength.

Aesop

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

I ain't so tough.

Tom Powers, The Public Enemy (1931)

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.

Bobby Dupea, Waitress (1970)

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Unattributed

We belong dead.

The Monster, Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Kim Rohn

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Thomas Edison

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Don't dream it be it.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Anonymous

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

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

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford