Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?

Paul Sweeney

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

Edgar J. Mohn

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.

Anonymous

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

Martha Washington

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

Isaac Newton

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

P. T. Barnum

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

Edmund Burke

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.

Aristotle

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

Anonymous

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?

George Bernard Shaw

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Swami Vivekananda

Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.

Tom Larson

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.

Christy Borgeld

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Lester Sumrall

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.

Mother Teresa

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

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.

Anonymous

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.

Pete Zafra

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

Abraham Lincoln

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Albert Schweitzer

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Thomas Edison

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

Harvey Mackay

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

English Proverb

It's never too late.

Unknown

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.

Anthony Robbins

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.

Larry Page

Life is what you make it.

Unknown

Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.

Richard Saunders

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.

Henry Ford

One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'

Abraham Maslow

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

Traditional Proverb

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?

Cicero

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.

F.W. Nichol

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

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

William Shedd

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas Edison

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

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

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.

Karl Jaspers

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.

Anonymous

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

The best things in life are free.

Unknown

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

Zig Ziglar

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

This too, shall pass.

Persian Proverb

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.

Swami Vivekananda

Kindness is always fashionable.

America E. Barr

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.

John P. Strelecky

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

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

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.

Milton Berle

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

You only get out what you put in.

Unknown

Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning