Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.

Unknown

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

George Catlin

Follow your dreams.

Unknown

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Henry Ford

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

Stephen Covey

I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Perle Thompson

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Greek Proverb

There are no gains without pains.

Adlai Stevenson

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

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

Unknown

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

The beginning is the half of every action.

Greek Proverb

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mohammed

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Canary Island Proverb

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

Anthony Robbins

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.

David O. McKay

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Brian Tracy

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.

Swami Vivekananda

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

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

Anonymous

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.

Anonymous

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

John Andrew Holmes Jr.

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

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

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Bible

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Philip Armour

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb