Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

Things do not change we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Proverb

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Zig Ziglar

This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.

George Bernard Shaw

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Mark Victor Hansen

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

Harry Milner

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

General Douglas MacArthur

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

George Catlin

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion

Aristotle

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Napoleon Hill

is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.

J.F.T. Bugental

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -

Kyle Chandler

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Stephen Covey

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William A. Ward

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Abraham Lincoln

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.

Red Cloud

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

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

Abraham Lincoln

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

P. T. Barnum

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't think it, ink it.

Mark Victor Hansen

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.

Golda Meir

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Tony Dorsett

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Kim Rohn

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

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.

Greek Proverb

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Unknown

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah

To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !

Katherine Graham

There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battome

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Cousins

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't quit.

Unknown

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?

Dale Carnegie

Don't ever give up.

Unknown

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.

Gabonese Proverb

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

When god closes a door, he opens a window.

Unknown

The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

Clint Smith

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Walter Winchell

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Perfect love can not be without equality.

Scottish Proverb

You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Paul Sweeney

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Lou Holtz

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.

George Catlin

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?

Christy Borgeld

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

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

Cicero

I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford