Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

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

Thomas Jefferson

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Happiness is a choice.

Barry Neil Kaufman

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Thomas Edison

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Norman Vincent Peale

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.

Rollo May

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.

Swami Vivekananda

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown

Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?

Swami Vivekananda

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

Bruce Lee

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 heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Thomas S. Monson

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Success is never wondering what if.

Karrie Huffman

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

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

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

Seneca

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

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.

Zen Proverb

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.

David Mahoney

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

B.C. Forbes

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.

Swami Vivekananda

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

Perfect love can not be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".

Kahlil Gibran

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.

Swami Vivekananda

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do it now !

Napoleon Hill

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

Michael Johnson

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

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

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

Winston Churchill

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

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

Benjamin Disraeli

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

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

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

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

Winston Churchill

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

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

Unknown

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

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

F.M. Hubbard

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

General Peter Schoomaker

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

Prentice

People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.

Bob Klas

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins