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.

Honor the ocean of love.

George de Benneville

Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Robert C. Solomon

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

Captain, Cool Hand Luke (1967)

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

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

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl Nightingale

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time

Marion Wright Edelman

Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.

Tarzan, Tarzan The Ape Man (1932)

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

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

Marcus Wareing

Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad, The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Stand-up comedy is a brutal business. And thanks to Netflix, people get overpaid for it.

Jim Gaffigan, @Golden Globes

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

Thomas Edison

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Maria Montessori

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

I bet you can squeal like a pig.

Mountain Man, Deliverance (1972)

Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

Meryl Streep, @Golden Globes

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unattributed

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.

Tyler Durden, Fight Club (1999)

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.

Harry Lime, The Third Man (1949)

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St Francis De Sales

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.

The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio (1940)

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.

Ladislaus Boros

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Vito Corleone, The Godfather (1972)

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

Cutter, Gunga Din (1939)

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Anonymous

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.

Montaigne

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Anthony Robbins

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Dennis Waitley

Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.

Dorothy Gale, The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Unknown

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewar

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

Live with passion !

Anthony Robbins

To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.

Paul R. Ehrlich

One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Bartender Nat, The Lost Weekend (1945)

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes