Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes

Thomas Edison

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

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

Dennis Waitley

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.

Martin Buber

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

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

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey Mackay

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

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

Horace

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

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

Anonymous

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St Francis De Sales

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".

Joe Flacco

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

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

John Milton

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.

Su Shi

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

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Harvey Mackay

All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.

Glenn Gould

There's always a way - if you're committed.

Anthony Robbins

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Anonymous

You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?

John P. Strelecky

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

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

Abraham Lincoln

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Anthony Robbins

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

Don't ever give up.

Unknown

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

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

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen Covey

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

Bruce Lee

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

Plato

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

Abraham Lincoln

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

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

Danish Proverb

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon