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
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
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
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
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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)
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
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
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]
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
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
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
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
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
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
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
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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