Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.

Martha Washington

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Hunker down.

Unknown

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Stephen Covey

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

Thomas Fuller

In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Martin Buber

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Crash Davis

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Napoleon Hill

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

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

Dennis Waitley

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

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

Francis of Assisi

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Mark Twain

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

John Davidson Rockefeller

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes

Dennis Waitley

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Harris

If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

William Shakespeare

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Charles M. Schwab

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.

Harvey Mackay

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Stephen Covey

Attitude is everything.

Unknown

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

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

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?

Martin Luther King Jr.

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone