Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Napoleon Hill

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.

Willis Whitney

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.

Joe Flacco

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

Embrace your inner voice.

John P. Strelecky

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

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

Jim Rohn

You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

George Matthew Adams

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Thomas Jefferson

Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

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

Jim Ryun

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Anonymous

When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.

Bruce Lee

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

Robert Half

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

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

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

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

E.M. Kelly

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

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

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

If there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.

B.C. Forbes

Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

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

George Eliot

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jim Rohn

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Baiyun

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Robert H. Schuller

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

Love understands all languages.

Romanian Proverb

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

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.

Leonard Berry

Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl Nightingale

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.

Zig Ziglar

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Anonymous

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

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

Unknown

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

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

Chuck Sigars