Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

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

Peace Pilgrim

Be who you are in every situation.

Michael Johnson

Live life with passion.

Unknown

Embrace that small things lead to big things.

John P. Strelecky

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

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

Thomas Carlyle

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

The Supremes

I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.

Bruce Lee

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

Truth fears no questions.

Unattributed

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Unknown

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

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

William Shakespeare

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

Anatole France

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

This too, shall pass.

Persian Proverb

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

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

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

James Oppenheim

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.

Thomas J. Watson

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Anonymous

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.

Anonymous

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

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

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

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.

Pete Zafra

I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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

Anonymous

There is no luck except where there is discipline.

Irish Proverb

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

Anonymous

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another

Emma Goldman

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Zig Ziglar

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George Mueller

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

James F. Bell

Don't water your weeds.

Harvey Mackay

We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.

John P. Strelecky

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.

Stephen Covey

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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

Anthony Dalla Villa

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Winston Churchill

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

Susan Podziba

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

George Eliot

No one became poor by giving alms.

French Proverb

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

George Matthew Adams

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

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

After your jump, the net appears.

Vincent Lauria

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

John P. Strelecky

We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?

Swami Vivekananda

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dale Carnegie

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus