Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

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

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Stephen Covey

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Winston Churchill

My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Plutarch

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Coach K

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.

Anonymous

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Anthony Robbins

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Anthony Robbins

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?

Robert H. Schuller

Slow but steady wins the race.

Unknown

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

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

Michael Johnson

Faith can move mountains.

Unknown

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Live with passion.

Anthony Robbins

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

William Cowper

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas Edison

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.

Warren G. Bennis

There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.

Anonymous

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Margaret Thatcher

The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.

Danish Proverb

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.

Margaret Thatcher

Remove failure as an option.

Joan Lunden

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

Greek Proverb

"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.

George P. Burnham

What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.

Swami Vivekananda

Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.

George Herbert

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Dennis Waitley

A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -

Dexter Yager

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Unattributed

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.

William Shedd

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

W. Clement Stone

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

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

Swami Vivekananda

It's always too soon to quit !

Norman Vincent Peale

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:15

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

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

William A. Ward

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 514

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Unattributed

Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

Mark Victor Hansen

He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team

Red Auerbach

Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Robert Half

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Aldous Huxley

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.

Biblical Proverb

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Norman Vincent Peale

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.

Bruce Lee

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

Muhammad Ali

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Bambara Proverb