Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Edison

Actions speak louder than words.

Proverb

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

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

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

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

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

Sugar Ray Robinson

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

Thomas Edison

A small house will hold a hundred friends.

African Proverb

Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.

George DeVack

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

The greater the obstacle the more glory.

Moliere

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani

Better late than never.

Proverb

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

Michael Johnson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Live life to the fullest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Winston Churchill

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

John Lennon

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown

I am fond of only what comes from the heart.

Martha Washington

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Swami Vivekananda

Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey Mackay

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Great men are not always wise.

Job 329

Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?

Larry Smith

You're as old as you behave.

Harvey Mackay

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness

John Buchan

In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.

Thomas Edward Lawrence

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Attitude determines altitude.

Anonymous

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Napoleon Hill

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

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

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Norman Vincent Peale

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

La Rochefoucauld

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

Vince Lombardi

Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

Swami Vivekananda

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.

Thomas Edison

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

As you think in your heart, so shall you be.

Proverb

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Napoleon Hill

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.

Unattributed

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.

Satchel Paige

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Anthony Robbins

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?

Earl Nightingale

Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.

Eli Cohen

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English Proverb

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Thomas Szasz

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !

Joe Flacco

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

Anything is possible.

Unknown

Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Unknown

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

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

Anonymous

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere