Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.

Robert Half

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Anthony Robbins

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Horace

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Marcel Proust

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wicker

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

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

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Dennis Waitley

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

Love conquers all.

Virgil

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

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

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

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

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

James F. Bell

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

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

Abraham Lincoln

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Ralph Blum

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

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

Rene Descartes

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Zig Ziglar

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Brian Tracy

You can do what you want to do.

David Thomas

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Jean Sibelius

The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.

Danish Proverb

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Napoleon Hill

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

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

Unknown

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

Canary Island Proverb

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

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

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

Roger Smith

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda

First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.

Tom Hannah

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Stephen Covey

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney