Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Stephen Covey

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marion Wright Edelman

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

The crocodile is only strong in the water.

Angolan Proverb

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

Robert Half

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.

Japanese Proverb

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Anonymous

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

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

Aristotle

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.

Unknown

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Barbara Winter

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.

W. Somerset Manghan

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

They alone live, who live for others.

Swami Vivekananda

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

Levell Edwards

Grow deep - not just tall.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Anonymous

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Anonymous

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

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

Mother Teresa

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.

Joe Klock

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Brian Tracy

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

Anonymous

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Anonymous

There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.

Anonymous

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.

Danish Proverb

We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.

Anonymous

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.

Anonymous

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

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

Abraham Lincoln

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.

Lee Iacocca