Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

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

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Unknown

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

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

Winston Churchill

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dennis Waitley

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Unknown

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.

Joseph Ray

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stephen Covey

He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.

German Proverb

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

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

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

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?

Joe Namath

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

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

Dennis Waitley

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Dennis Waitley

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

Marva Collins

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Harvey Mackay

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Stephen Covey

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?

Dale Carnegie

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Don't quit.

Unknown

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Swami Vivekananda

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

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

Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Anonymous

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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

Albert Einstein

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

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

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

Martha Washington

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.

Thomas J. Watson

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

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

If you feel you have no faults there's another one.

Anonymous

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Anonymous

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Lou Holtz

Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

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

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Larry Smith

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

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

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

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar