Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Katherine Graham

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Dick Gregory

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Unknown

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

Stephen Covey

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

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

Anthony Robbins

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Unknown

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas Edison

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.

Anonymous

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

Whatever happens, take responsibility !

Anthony Robbins

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

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

Stephen Covey

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles M. Schwab

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor

Vince Lombardi

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

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Thomas Edison

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas Edison

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

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

Joshua J. Marine

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.

Thomas Edison

Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Edmund Spenser

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?

Swami Vivekananda

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

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

William Cowper

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

Mary Kay Ash

There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.

Robert Half

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson

You must motivate yourself every day.

Matthew Stasior

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.

W. Clement Stone

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

Experience is the best teacher.

Proverb

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Richard Cech

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

Marcel Proust

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway