Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Les Brown

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 1218

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

David Farragut

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Albert Einstein

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.

Danish Proverb

But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Karl Jaspers

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Anonymous

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Indian Proverb

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Bible

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Winston Churchill

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

English Proverb

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.

Robert Half

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

None are homely who smile.

Robert Half

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Napoleon Hill

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.

W. Clement Stone

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

Anatole France

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Afghan Proverb

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

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

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

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

Assyrian Proverb

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Swami Vivekananda

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

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

Richard Bach

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

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Unknown

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

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

St Francis De Sales

We must be the change we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Norman Vincent Peale

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Unknown

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

No fate is worse than a life without a love.

Mexican Proverb

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Henry Ford

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

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

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

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

Danish Proverb

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Anonymous

Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.

Bruce Lee

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Lao Tse

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill

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

Jim Rohn

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

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

Brian Tracy

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

John Milton

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell