Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.

A. P. Gouthey

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

Gerald J. Simmons

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

Those who laugh - last!!

Karen Kaiser Clark

If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

Justin Sims

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Publius Terence

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it

Theodore Roosevelt

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

A life lived in fear is half lived.

Anonymous

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Anonymous

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't quit.

Unknown

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

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

Harvey Mackay

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

Anonymous

This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Swami Vivekananda

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Colin Powell

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

Margaret Thatcher

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?

Diogenes

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4: 4-7

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Napoleon Hill

If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.

John P. Strelecky

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca

Whatever it takes !

Unknown

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.

Anonymous

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.

John Dewey

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Darrell Royal

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

Immaturity can last a lifetime.

Robert Half

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Stephen Covey

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhamed Ali

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Beverly Sills

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

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

Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Jack Canfield

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

Hillel

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Anonymous

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

Stephen Covey

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Albert Careb

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''

Robert H. Schuller

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Ronald Reagan

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

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !

Winston Churchill

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

Lydia Maria Child

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

Sydney Harris

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Unknown

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.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Proverb

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

Swami Vivekananda

I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

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

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha