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.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

Can you dig it ?

Youngblood Priest, Superfly (1972)

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

I want the fairy tale.

Vivian, Pretty Woman (1990)

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1974)

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

Albert Einstein

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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

Federico Fellini

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sands

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

Harvey Mackay

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Robert H. Schuller

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Erich Fromm

Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Richard L. Evans

My precious.

Gollum, The Lord Of The Rings (2002)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

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

Collin McCarty

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.

Anzia Yezierska

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

Robert H. Schuller

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.

Ken Robbins

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !

George Jacques Danton

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen Covey

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Richard Bach

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb

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

Helen Keller

The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.

John Eldredge

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?

Richard Bach

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

Winston Churchill

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -

Blaine Lee

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

Robert Half

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.

Unknown

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret B. Runbeck

There's no crying in baseball !

Jimmy Dugan, A League Of Their Own (1992)

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

We're sisters under the same mink.

Debby Marsh, The Big Heat (1953)

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

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

Stephen Covey

Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?

Indiana Jones, Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1987)

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

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.

Mark Victor Hansen

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

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

Marcus Wareing

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Portuguese Proverb

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Anonymous

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

With my brains and your looks, we could go places.

Frank Chambers, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.

David B. Allman

Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda