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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
[ Genius ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel books
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
[ Action ]
Aristotle
Aristotle books
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74 votes
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
[ Morality ]
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov books
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75 votes
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
[ Service ]
Louis Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss books
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71 votes
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
[ Pleasure ]
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot books
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73 votes
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
[ Uniqueness ]
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead books
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76 votes
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
[ Belief ]
Joel A. Barker
Joel A. Barker books
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62 votes
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
[ Happiness ]
Sir James M. Barrie
Sir James M. Barrie books
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66 votes
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
[ Giving ]
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher books
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62 votes
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
[ Mistakes ]
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett books
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46 votes
With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.
[ Gossip ]
Bible
Bible books
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39 votes
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
[ Common Sense ]
Josh Billings
Josh Billings books
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58 votes
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
[ Enjoyment ]
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury books
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42 votes
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
[ Fantasy ]
Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand books
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71 votes
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
[ Impossibility ]
Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis books
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60 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ]
Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Von Braun books
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35 votes
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
[ Inspiration ]
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson books
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39 votes
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
[ Quality ]
Steve Brown
Steve Brown books
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63 votes
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
[ Preparation ]
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. books
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71 votes
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
[ Risk ]
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett books
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54 votes
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
[ Reason ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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69 votes
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
[ Suffering ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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44 votes
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
[ Excellence ]
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie books
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42 votes
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
[ Fun ]
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie books
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38 votes
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
[ Enjoyment ]
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie books
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57 votes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
[ Charity ]
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes books
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49 votes
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
[ Worth ]
Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield books
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60 votes
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
[ Insanity ]
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb books
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62 votes
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb books
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40 votes
It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
[ Achievement ]
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill books
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36 votes
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
[ Justice ]
Marcus T. Cicero
Marcus T. Cicero books
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47 votes
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
[ Altruism ]
Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton books
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39 votes
There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
[ Inaction ]
Trammell Crow
Trammell Crow books
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36 votes
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
[ Genius ]
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci books
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41 votes
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
[ Fame ]
Miles Davis
Miles Davis books
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43 votes
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
[ Knowledge ]
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas books
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40 votes
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
[ Potential ]
Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland books
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40 votes
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
[ Injustice ]
Democritus
Democritus books
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44 votes
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
[ Enjoyment ]
Chauncey Depew
Chauncey Depew books
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43 votes
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
[ Aid and Assistance ]
Princess of Wales Diana
Princess of Wales Diana books
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40 votes
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
[ Efficiency ]
Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker books
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38 votes
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker books
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52 votes
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
[ Right and Rightness ]
Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker books
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53 votes
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
[ Mediocrity ]
Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker books
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43 votes
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
[ Wives ]
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh books
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38 votes
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
[ Possibilities ]
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison books
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42 votes
If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
[ Research ]
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein books
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36 votes
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
[ Integrity ]
George Eliot
George Eliot books
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42 votes
There is always a best way of doing everything.
[ Excellence ]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson books
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18 votes
If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.
[ Action ]
English Proverb
English Proverb books
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47 votes