Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.

Congolese Proverb

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

Phyllis Battome

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.

English Proverb

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Robert Half

We get to make a living , we give to make a life.

Winston Churchill

You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?

P. T. Barnum

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Epictetus

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.

Rabindranath Tagore

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

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

Vince Lombardi

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abb D'Allanival

Better late than never.

Proverb

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Hasidic Proverb

You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Dennis Waitley

If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!

Henriette Montel

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Bridges

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

Indian Proverb

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?

W. Clement Stone

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Anonymous

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

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

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.

E. E. Hale

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller

Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.

Georgette Mosbacher

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

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

It is always your next move.

Napoleon Hill

What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Bible

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

Anonymous

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

Smile ! and the world will smile with you !

Unknown

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

This is the beginning of a new day.

Unknown

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

Democritus

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

Coach K

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

Anonymous

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Jerome Cummings

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Harvey Mackay

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Indian Proverb

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.

Helice Bridges

There's always a way - if you're committed.

Anthony Robbins

Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.

Bruce Lee

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Abraham Lincoln

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Helen Keller

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

Traditional Proverb

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith