Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

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

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Better late than never.

Proverb

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.

C.N. Bovee

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

Robert H. Schuller

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

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

William Cowper

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

Aristotle

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Matthew Allen

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

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

Buckminster Fuller

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

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

I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

Joe Flacco

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

Madeleine Albright

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.

Francis Wilson

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Chinese Proverb

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.

Aristotle

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.

Lee Iacocca

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max DePree

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.

Swami Vivekananda

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Anne Armstrong

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas Edison

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Unknown

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

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

Abraham Lincoln

Hunker down.

Unknown

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.

Isabel Burton

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Anonymous

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

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

Dale Carnegie

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius