Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.

William B. Given, Jr.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Carrie Fisher

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Zig Ziglar

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

Seize the day.

Unknown

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

Joseph Sugarman

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Anonymous

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylor

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

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

Jim Rohn

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

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

Dale Carnegie

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Andrew Carnegie

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

The sun will come up tomorrow

Unknown

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Keep the Faith.

Unknown

Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

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

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas Edison

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

I think therefore I am

Rene Descartes

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Rene Dubos

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time

Marion Wright Edelman

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Anonymous

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Zig Ziglar

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

Bill Blackman

Your talent is god's gift to you.

Leo Buscaglia

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Jim Rohn

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

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

Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.

Bill Jensen