Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Success is the proper utilization of failure.

Anonymous

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Stephen Covey

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

Earl Nightingale

The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.

Swami Vivekananda

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.

Dale Carnegie

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

Winston Churchill

Hunker down.

Unknown

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Chinese Proverb

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

Henry Miller

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

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

Albert Schweitzer

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Larry Smith

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.

Walt Whitman

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.

Winston Churchill

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

Carpe diem.

Latin Proverb

The world belongs to the energetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Swami Vivekananda

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Bernard Haldane

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

Anonymous

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

David Thomas

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Thomas Carlyle

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

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

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

General Douglas MacArthur

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

David Schwartz

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.

Dutch Proverb

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Martha Washington

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:24

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?

Sydney J. Harris

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.

Mark Twain

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Lydia Maria Child

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

William Arthur Ward

It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.

Nancy Banks-Smith

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Rollo May

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Waitley

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

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

Henry Ford

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.

Colossians 315

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.

Molly McDonald

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

Desmond Tutu

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Theodore H. White

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !

Lewis Carroll

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

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

Emily Dickinson

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Larry Scherwitz

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

Thomas Edison

If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?

Hillel

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.

Swami Vivekananda

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

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

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese Proverb

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.

Christy Borgeld

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas Edison

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

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

Robert Half

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill

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

Stan Smith

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein