Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.
- Thomas Jefferson
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere
to get American citizens to obey
the orders of constituted courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.
That must be maintained, for it is
the only safeguard of our liberties.
- Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
Creativity is the quality that you bring
to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach -
how you look at things.
- Osho
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
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