Inspirational Quotes - DoolBug

Inspirational Quotes

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.

Martha Washington

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

J.S. Knox

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gorden B. Hinkley

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.

Thomas Edison

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.

Unknown

Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?

Swami Vivekananda

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Proverb

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Anthony Robbins

Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

John S. Hinds

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

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

William Shakespeare

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

Warren G. Bennis

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.

Horace

Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas Edison

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

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

Sydney Harris

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Marva Collins

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only

Plautus

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

John Milton

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.

Ivan Scheier

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

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

Anonymous

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

Plutarch

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Lou Holtz

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Reach for the stars.

Unknown

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

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

William A. Ward

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Mark Victor Hansen

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred Whitefield

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.

Winston Churchill

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

Anonymous

No pain, No gain.

Unknown

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Unattributed

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

Janet Erskine Stuart

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John Davidson Rockefeller

Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.

Christy Borgeld

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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 whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.

Norman Vincent Peale

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.

Marsha Sinetar

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

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.

Martin Buber

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Tony Dorsett

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change

Jim Rohn

The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Stephen Covey

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Abraham Lincoln