Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.

Bill Blackman

The life which is unexamined is not worth living

Socrates

My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.

Bruce Lee

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Sandra Swinney

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Norman Vincent Peale

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?

Mark Twain

And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.

Samuel Coleridge

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

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

Jim Rohn

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Waitley

Without a general an army is lost.

Greek Proverb

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.

Unknown

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.

Hebrew Proverb

That which does not kill you makes you stronger.

Neitzsche

Find the good -- and praise it.

Alex Haley

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anonymous

I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Anonymous

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.

Anonymous

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Confucius

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.

Swami Vivekananda

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes

Napoleon Hill

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Spanish Proverb

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert H. Schuller

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Dennis Waitley

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

If you would create something, you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Anatole France

All work is empty save when there is love.

Kahlil Gibran

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

King Solomon

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey Mackay

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

The Supremes

Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.

Unattributed

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

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

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

Thomas Edison

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Zig Ziglar

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Anthony Robbins

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

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Anthony Robbins

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Dorothy Day

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind

Earl Nightingale