Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.

Sister Busche

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

W. Clement Stone

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

Judith Martin

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Barbara Winter

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas Edison

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough Reason

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.

Unknown

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Robert H. Schuller

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Dennis Waitley

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

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

You must tolerate that which you can not change.

Spanish Proverb

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Robert H. Schuller

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Unknown

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Romans 1218

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard

Tristan Bernard

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.

Marcus Wareing

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Danish Proverb

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Eli Cohen

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

Spanish Proverb

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.

W. R. Inge

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '

Stephen Covey

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Abraham Lincoln

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

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

Harriet Rubin

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

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

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Harvey Mackay

if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.

Rollo May

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.

Aesop

The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Dale Carnegie

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.

Swami Vivekananda

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown