A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
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
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
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
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)
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
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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
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]
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
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
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
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
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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