Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.

Anonymous

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !

Theodore Roosevelt

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?

Benjamin Franklin

Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.

Robert Ingersoll

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacArthur

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.

A. P. Gouthey

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.

Anonymous

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Unknown

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Be the best that you can be.

Unknown

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

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

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

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

Dennis Waitley

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

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

Anatole France

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

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

Swami Vivekananda

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Confucius

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?

Sydney Harris

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

Live your dreams.

Les Brown

Winners never quit and quitters never win !

Vince Lombardi

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others

Swami Vivekananda

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

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

Harvey Mackay

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

Know thyself.

Socrates

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

James F. Bell

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas Edison

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

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

George Eliot

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

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 are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

He who hesitates is lost.

Proverb

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

William A. Ward

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

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

William A. Ward

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

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Anthony Robbins

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

Robert Schuller

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

Admiral Collingwood

Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.

John P. Strelecky

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.

Karl Jaspers

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it

Colin Wilson

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein