Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.

Marsha Sinetar

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

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor

Vince Lombardi

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

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

Anonymous

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

Albert Careb

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Confucius

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

Anonymous

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi

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

Lucy Larcom

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Dennis Waitley

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jim Rohn

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

Danish Proverb

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tse

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

Admiral Collingwood

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Unknown

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

Richard Bach

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Anonymous

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it

Unknown

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

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

Harriet Rubin

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Madame De Maintenon

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!

Jim Ryun

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Zig Ziglar

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elbert Hubbard

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Never say die.

Proverb

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

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

John Crowe

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

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

Charles A. Beard

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.

Bruce Lee

Don't quit.

Unknown

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

Traditional Proverb

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

William George Jordan

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

Nancy Banks-Smith

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson