Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.

Anonymous

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy

Embrace that it's ok to grow.

John P. Strelecky

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.

Katie Lusk

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

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

Ovid

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.

Robert Half

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

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

If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.

Swami Vivekananda

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

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

Kahlil Gibran

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

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

Robert H. Schuller

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.

William Ellery Channing

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

George Catlin

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Zig Ziglar

What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.

Anthony Dalla Villa

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

African Proverb

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

Chinese Proverb

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that 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.

Swami Vivekananda

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

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

Lori Hard

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Albert Einstein

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

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Publilius Syrus

Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.

Zig Ziglar

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.

Harold Hill

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.

Martin Buber

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -

Blaine Lee

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Winston Churchill

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?

John Milton

First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Bible

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

Thomas Edison

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.

Sequichie Comingdeer

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Buckminster Fuller

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Albert Schweitzer