Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".

Norman Vincent Peale

Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.

Georgette Mosbacher

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

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

George Bernard Shaw

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?

Anonymous

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Admiral Collingwood

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

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

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

Unknown

You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes

Brian Tracy

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

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

Martha Washington

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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

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

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.

John Crowe

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -

Elbert Hubbard

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill

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

Thomas Jefferson

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Napoleon Hill

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.

W. Clement Stone

This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

Swami Vivekananda

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.

Anthony Pagano

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

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

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

In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!

Jeff Bridges, @Golden Globes

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

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

Winston Churchill

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change comes from within.

Unknown

Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.

Greg Anderson

It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.

Joe Flacco

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napolean Hill

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

Anonymous

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

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

Aristotle

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Henry Ford

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter

Aristotle

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Larry Smith

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Pat Riley

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

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

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Anton Chekhov

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

Carl Jung

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord