Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Anonymous

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.

Anonymous

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

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

Henry Ford

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

For with god all things are possible.

Bible

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Eileen Caddy

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Anonymous

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at

Henry David Thoreau

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

Unknown

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

Swami Vivekananda

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Henri Nouwen

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

Thornton Wilder

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Swami Vivekananda

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.

Anonymous

When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.

Unattributed

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

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

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

Traditional Proverb

Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed

Thomas Edison

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.

John P. Strelecky

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

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

Swami Vivekananda

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Seneca

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

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

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

What you cannot enforce, Do not command.

Sophocles

Success is predictable.

Brian Tracy

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

Epictetus

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

La Rochefoucauld

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

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

J.A. Froude

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey Mackay

He who hesitates is lost !

Proverb

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.

Dean Marshall Art Linkletter

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

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

Winston Churchill

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Never say die.

Proverb

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".

Brian Tracy

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!

Anthony Robbins

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Bridges

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

One lie ruins a thousand truths.

Ghanaian Proverb

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Ralph Waldo Emerson