Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Albert Einstein

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

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

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

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

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.

Thomas Edison

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

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

Anatole France

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Helen Keller

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.

Unknown

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.

Robert Ingersoll

If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Dennis Waitley

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.

Ashley E. Hyder

Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.

Anonymous

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

Strike while the iron is hot.

Proverb

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.

Egyptian Proverb

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

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

Danny Kaye

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

Swami Vivekananda

If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed

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

Harvey Mackay

Perfect love can not be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.

Mark Twain

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Richard Bach

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

Epictetus

Live life with passion.

Unknown

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.

Red Cloud

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

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.

Danish Proverb

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.

Michael Johnson

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Erich Fromm

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Anonymous

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

Emily P. Bissell

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

John Davidson Rockefeller

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas Edison

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Winston Churchill

The cherokee people are not "my people".

Chief John Ross

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

James Thomas

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Dan Stanford

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Unknown

You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.

Susan Podziba

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E.E. Cummings

Every dog has his day.

Proverb

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.

Robert Half

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul McCartney

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -

Elbert Hubbard

The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Edison

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn