Doers Quotes - Page 2

• The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Men, Republican

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.204, Hoover Press

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• I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Dream, Challenges, World

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• A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Needs, Treasure, Action

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Heart, People

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• A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Done, Benefits

  "De Beneficiis" by Seneca the Younger, I. 6, 63 AD.

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• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Buddhist, Men

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• Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

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• Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

  LeBron James

  Deceiving Others, Catholic, Reading The Bible

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• But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

  Roone Arledge

  Organization, People, Creative

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• One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Real, Justice, Effort

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• Learning is finding out what you already know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, Learning Knowledge, Teaching Others

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.46, Delta

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• I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Deeds, Sides

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.242

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• Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Dream, Party, Goal

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

  Jethro Tull

  Light, Politics, Failing

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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• Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

  Robert Barr

  Evil, Risk, Use

  Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.15, Oldcastle Books

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• The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Great talkers are little doers.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Talkers

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Evil, World

  "Bush Vows to Rid the World of 'Evil-doers'". edition.cnn.com. September 16, 2001.

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• The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Past, Achievement

  'The Spirit of the Age' (1825) 'Mr Coleridge'

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• I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

  Rachel Zoe

  Slacker

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• Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Progress

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• Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

  Homer

  Deeds, Mental Health, Speakers

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.3216, Delphi Classics

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