Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Thomas Dewar

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

Ernest Hemingway

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

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

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Art Linkletter

A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.

Polybius

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Jonathan Winters

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.

Martin Luther King Jr.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.

Afghan Proverb

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.

Anonymous

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''

Dale Dauten

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.

Proverb

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.

Anonymous

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

It's never too late.

Unknown

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

Michael Johnson

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

Epictetus

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Anthony Robbins

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

St Francis De Sales

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

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".

Jim Rohn

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Robert Half

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Anonymous

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

Swami Vivekananda

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Anonymous

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

Chinese Proverb

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up

Jim Rohn

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !

Anthony Robbins

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

Anatole France

The way we see the problem is the problem.

Stephen Covey

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Thomas Dewar

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

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

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

Zen Proverb

It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.

John P. Strelecky

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Zig Ziglar

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

William Feather

Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.

Stephen Covey

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

W. Clement Stone

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes

Earl Nightingale

Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul

Les Hewitt

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

Jim Rohn

We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Swami Vivekananda

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Aristotle

Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Barbara Sher

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Dennis Waitley

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Honesty is the best image.

Tom Wilson