Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.

Swami Vivekananda

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.

J. Stephen

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

Every dog has his day.

Proverb

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

The show must go on.

Proverb

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Anonymous

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

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

Dennis Waitley

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

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

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.

Robert Ingersoll

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

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

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.

Steve Walton

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.

Stephen Covey

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.

John P. Strelecky

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Marva Collins

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

Chinese Proverb

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Anthony Robbins

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.

Anne Mackay Thompson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

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

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Dennis Waitley

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas Edison

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Anonymous

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams