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.

Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.

Peter Davies

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

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

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

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Be the ball.

Ty Webb, Caddyshack (1980)

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

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

Tom Larson

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.

Martha Washington

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

William Shakespeare

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

Anonymous

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

It's showtime !

Joe Gideon, All That Jazz (1979)

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Carl Jung

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

Abraham Lincoln

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

Unknown

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

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

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Unknown

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !

Principal Richard Vernon, The Breakfast Club (1985)

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

Stephen Covey

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care

T. Howell

No wire hangers, ever !

Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest (1981)

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Abraham Lincoln

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Anonymous

Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !

Mame Dennis, Auntie Mame (1958)

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.

Charlie Allnut, Rose Sayer (1951)

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Elbert Hubbard

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

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

Abraham Lincoln

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Robert Schuller

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

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

Jesus

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

W. Clement Stone

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Norma Desmond, Sunset Blvd (1950)

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

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

Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.

Laura Frith

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

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

Susan Taylor

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Unknown

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Levi ben Gershon

Never say die.

Proverb

Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

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

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

Anonymous

If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.

Blaise Pascal

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton - a bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought - allegedly!

Jim Gaffigan, @Golden Globes

People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not

Earl Nightingale

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

All you need is love.

John Lennon

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

E. Joseph Cossman

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.

Bob Klas