Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Dennis Waitley

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Dennis Waitley

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

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

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Effie Jones

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

John Maxwell

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 1218

There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.

Karl Jaspers

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.

Islamic Proverb

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

Margaret Thatcher

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.

Harriet Rubin

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?

Henry David Thoreau

If you feel you have no faults there's another one.

Anonymous

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.

Swami Vivekananda

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

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

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Michael Johnson

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

Seize the day.

Unknown

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl Nightingale

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.

Art Fry

Hard work pays off.

Unknown

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.

Sequichie Comingdeer

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

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

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

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

Ann Landers

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.

Norman Vincent Peale

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

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

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.

Lord Moran

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Zig Ziglar