Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Napoleon Hill

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

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

Stephen Covey

I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.

Karl Jaspers

Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.

Bruce Lee

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.

Stephen Covey

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

W.C Fields

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Aldous Huxley

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

Live life with passion.

Unknown

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Paul Sweeney

God doesn't make junk.

Unknown

The road to success is always under construction.

Unknown

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness is a state of mind.

Unknown

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

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

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Donald Trump

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

St. Francis De Sales

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

Buckminster Fuller

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Swami Vivekananda

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Dennis Waitley

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas Edison

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.

Joe Flacco

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Confucius

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Dennis Waitley

This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.

George Bernard Shaw

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.

John P. Strelecky

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

Donald Williams

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

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

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas Edison

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Annie Dillard

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

Abraham Lincoln