Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Thomas Edison

To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Bruce Lee

Seek first to understand, then be understood

Stephen Covey

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Love conquers all.

Virgil

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

Nothing succeeds like success.

Proverb

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas Edison

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.

Mark Twain

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.

Robert Half

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

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

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Earl Nightingale

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Epictetus

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Brigham Young

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

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

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Anthony Robbins

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are few people who can manage more than their own business.

Martha Washington

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

James Oppenheim

All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.

Swami Vivekananda

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.

Chinese Proverb

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

Colin Powell

The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Aldous Huxley

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Swami Vivekananda

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Stephen Covey

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Dennis Waitley

There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.

Abraham Maslow

Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.

Master Yuanwu

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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

Henry Ford

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.

Marcus Wareing

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.

Anonymous

Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.

Lee Iacocca

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Anonymous

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

Aristotle

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.

Michael Johnson

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Swami Vivekananda

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

John Milton

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

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.

Robert Half

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

Helice Bridges

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

Anonymous

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

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

Henry Ward Beecher

When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?

Sydney Harris

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

Anthony Robbins

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.

David Starr Jordan

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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