Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

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

Martha Washington

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

Thomas Edison

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Albert Einstein

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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.

Larry Smith

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.

George Catlin

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

Karl A. Menninger

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Anonymous

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.

C.S. Lewis

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Perfect love can not be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

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 anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.

Paul "Bear" Bryant

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.

Unknown

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

Winston Churchill

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.

Robert Half

One man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Jackson

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

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Edison

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

Kahlil Gibran

A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

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

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within

Earl Nightingale

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

William Arthur Ward

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah

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

Anonymous

If it is to be it is up to me.

Unknown

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. Devos

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.

Stephen Covey

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Robert H. Schuller

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

Thomas Kempis

We get to make a living , we give to make a life.

Winston Churchill

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Jakob Dylan

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell