Doings Quotes - Page 3

• There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

  Rita Dove

  Life, Motivational, Time

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Education, Peace

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

  Rob Bell

  Sabbath, Humans, Human Beings

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2011

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• You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

  Tad R. Callister

  Life, Marriage, Prayer

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• We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

  Donald M. Nelson

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

  George W Truett

  God, Knowledge, Greatness

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• Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.

  Xavier Rudd

  Motivational, Finding Yourself, Finding Happiness

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2010

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• Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

  Ai Weiwei

  Change, Thinking, Chinese

  Interview with Katie Hill, www.tate.org.uk. October 12, 2010.

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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• Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Jun 05, 2013

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• Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Life, Leadership, Matter

  Peter F. Drucker, Joan Snyder Kuhl, Frances Hesselbein (2015). “Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's Leaders”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

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  I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What goes around, comes around.

  Willie Nelson

  Karma, Respect, Revenge

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.33, Penguin

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• I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Thinking, Awkward

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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  People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Life, Country

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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  Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

  Cornel West

  Hope, Courage, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2010

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• ...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nails, Slugs, World

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.

  Walter Hilton

  Spiritual, Humility, Reality

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• She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

  Louise Erdrich

  Jobs, Mistake, Book

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• A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

  James Otis

  Men, Writs Of Assistance, Persons

  "James Otis's speech on the Writs of assistance" edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing, William Tudor, Hart, Albert Bushnell,.

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• Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery

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