Doings Quotes

• From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Anger, Inspire, Acting

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

  Evangeline Booth

  Inspirational, Helping Others, People

  Evangeline Booth, Grace Livingston Hill (1919). “The War Romance of the Salvation Army”

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

  J. C. Watts

  Integrity, Character, Thinking

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• The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Fear, Learning

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

  Leonard Sweet

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• Action expresses priorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Friendship, Family, Wisdom

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt On Death And The Dark Knight". Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

  Michael Jackson

  Life, Children, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Life, Christian, Jesus

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• Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”

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• The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Success, Perseverance, Learning

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

  Robert Ruark

  Fun, Memories, Night

  Robert Ruark (2016). “Old Man’s Boy Grows Up”, p.162, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.36, Barbour Publishing

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• I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

  Drake

  Relationship, Crazy, Humble

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• I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

  Clinton Kelly

  Inspirational, New Year, Choices

  FaceBook post by Clinton Kelly from Aug 26, 2013

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• I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  God, Christian, Eye

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Right is right, even if no one else does it.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Inspirational, Doe, Girl Scout

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• Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

  Plato

  Success, Failure, Men

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