Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Bible

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Earl Nightingale

Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!

Larry the Cable Guy

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Swami Vivekananda

You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen Covey

The best things in life are not things.

Unknown

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Mother Teresa

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.

Warren Bennis

The more goals you set - the more goals you get.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.

Bruce Lee

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Louis L. Mann

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

James Oppenheim

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Brian Tracy

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

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

Anonymous

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Anonymous

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.

Greg Henry Quinn

Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

George Catlin

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.

Proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop

Desmond Tutu

Never stop dreaming.

Unknown

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

J.G. Holland

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Buddhist Proverb

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

Les Brown

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.

Joe Flacco

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Winston Churchill

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Napoleon Hill

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

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

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

Elbert Hubbard

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.

Coach K

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Warren Bennis

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Dennis Waitley

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford