Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

To ask the hard question is simple.

W.H. Auden

Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Robert M. Pirsig

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.

Christy Borgeld

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.

Stephen Covey

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Iranian Proverb

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

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

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Anthony Robbins

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.

Swami Vivekananda

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''

E.M. Kelly

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

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

Tony Dorsett

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '

Stephen Covey

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

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

Kahil Gibran

Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

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

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.

Ghanaian Proverb

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Incenerios

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.

Anonymous

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.

Chinese Proverb

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.

Winston Churchill

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?

Bruce Lee

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Anonymous

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

Winston Churchill

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.

Brian Weir

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Anonymous

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

Unknown

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.

Karl Jaspers

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Shirley Lord

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

James Oppenheim

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Unknown

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy

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

William Shakespeare

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.

Winston Churchill

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Aristotle

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

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

Congolese Proverb

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

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

Anonymous

Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

Milan Kundera

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one is so poor as an ignorant person.

Hebrew Proverb

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.

Ed Foreman

The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.

Rodney L. Parsley

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

Randolph Ray

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

E. Joseph Cossman

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

French Proverb

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

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

Swami Vivekananda

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

Winston Churchill

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

Winston Churchill

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !

W. Clement Stone