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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
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
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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
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
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 you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert 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
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
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
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
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
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
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
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
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
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
Life's most urgent question is:
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
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
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.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
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
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Whenever a man or women is truly inspired,
it is because the same One Universal Spirit
is doing the inspiring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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]
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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