Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .

Peter Koestenbaum

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

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

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.

Mark Victor Hansen

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Anonymous

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

Thomas Edison

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

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Napoleon Hill

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

The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -

Blaine Lee

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Anonymous

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

George Catlin

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".

Brian Tracy

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

Albert Einstein

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Dennis Waitley

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.

Bruce Lee

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr

Martha Friedman

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."

Crash Davis

Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Barbara Sher

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

Myrtle Reed

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

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

William Arthur Ward

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

Michael Johnson

Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Anonymous

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Albert Einstein

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump

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

W. Clement Stone

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

What ever you are be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't fear, just live right.

Neal A. Maxwell

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

George Matthew Adams

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Dennis Waitley

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Anonymous

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

Anonymous

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.

Warren G. Bennis

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.

Seneca

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

You haven't failed until you quit trying.

Anonymous

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill