Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.

Nigerian Proverb

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

George Catlin

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Richard Carlson

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Dennis Waitley

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !

Anthony Robbins

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.

William Bridges

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

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

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

Anonymous

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

Love sees roses without thorns.

German Proverb

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

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

Thomas Edison

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Isaac Asimov

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Helen Keller

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

Donald A. Laird

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Johnson

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

Paul H. Dunn

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

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

Admiral Collingwood

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 nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

Kind words conquer.

Tamil Proverb

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

Allard Lowenstein

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Lyndon Johnson

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.

Swami Vivekananda

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

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

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

Anonymous

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

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

Unknown

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Keywood

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Unknown

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

Winston Churchill

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

Douglas Jerrold

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda