Doers Quotes - Page 4

• Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Advantage, Should, Duty

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.125, A&C Black

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• The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

  African Spir

  Men, Intelligent, Abuse

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to discriminate, so you'd better think about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Needs

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• And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Evil, Eternal

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.101, Xist Publishing

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• A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Worry, Effort

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• I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

  George MacDonald

  Hero, Men, Be A Man

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.161, Delphi Classics

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• Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.

  Allan Pinkerton

  Fate, Law, Punishment

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• I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

  George MacDonald

  Hero, Fall, Pride

  "MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest".

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• The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Add, World

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Use, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.192, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Cowardly Acts, Cowardly

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Thinking, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• We need a doer, not a talker.

  Bobby Jindal

  Needs, Talkers

  "Fighting for religious freedom". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2015.

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• The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sidelines, Talkers, Resent

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• For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightaway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

  LeBron James

  Men, Glasses, Way

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• Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Compassion, Silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.11, Arktos

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• To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

  Steven Biko

  Men, Evil, Black

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.

  Owen Barfield

  Men, Historical, Would Be

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• You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Action, Realizing, Samadhi

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• A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Home, Play

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• A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker.

  Bobby Jindal

  Isis, Needs, Common

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

  John Bunyan

  Believe, Men, Fruit

  John Bunyan (2017). “Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)”, p.82, Whitaker House

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• My acts are irrevocable
  Because they have no essence...
  Where are the doers of deeds
  Absent among their conditions?
  Imagine a magician
  Who creates a creature
  Who creates other creatures.
  Acts I perform are creatures
  Who create others.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Essence, Deeds, Emptiness

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