Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.

Mark Victor Hansen

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Icelandic Proverb

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

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

Harvey Mackay

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.

Proverb

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

George Catlin

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.

Robert Half

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

Embrace your inner voice.

John P. Strelecky

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Thomas Dewar

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

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

Anonymous

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.

Dale Carnegie

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.

Swami Vivekananda

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

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

Cullen Hightower

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.

Bruce Lee

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Seneca

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

Bruce Barton

A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -

Dexter Yager

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Napoleon Hill

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Napoleon Hill

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Confucius

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert Schuller

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

Greg Anderson

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

It is never too late to be what we might have been

George Eliot

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Anonymous

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

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

Winston Churchill

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Dennis Waitley

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S. Eliot

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin