Saying And Doing Quotes

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

  Winston Churchill

  Strength, Success, Badass

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Quarrels, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.264, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  Iris Murdoch

  Italian, Shoes, Boots

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• We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

  Robert McKee

  Communication, Thinking, Talking

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• Saying and doing are two things.

  Matthew Henry

  Two, Two Things, Pilgrims Progress

  Matthew Henry “Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea”, Lulu.com

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• Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Motivational, Procrastination, Successful

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “Freedom from Fear: Reflections on the Personality and Teachings of Gandhi”

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• We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

  Charles Dickens

  Feelings, Age, Faces

  Charles Dickens (1863). “David Copperfield”, p.190

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• We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Should Have, Busy

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• There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stupid, Ruins, Merit

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• Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

  James MacDonald

  Gaps, Competing

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• The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Differences, Understanding, Opinion

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• What we also need to have a discussion on the philosophy of art: so we must ask what is it that we want in the first place? Is it just about saying and doing whatever you want, or is it about something more? We should let the artist be free, but we must also question how exactly he deals with freedom. Is it arts for elevation or arts for destruction? Is there dignity in the process?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Art, Philosophy, Want

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

  Boots Riley

  Thinking, Supposed To Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Real, Book, Character

  Maxine Cheshire, John Greenya (1979). “Maxine Cheshire, reporter”, Dell Publishing Company

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• What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

  William Shenstone

  Freedom, People, Broken

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.213

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• I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

  Michael Haneke

  Freak, Relaxed, Knows

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• On doing what you want to do.

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  Doing What You Want, Want, What You Want

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• The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Writing, Fire

  "Why Write?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. October 15, 2007.

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• If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

  Susan Hill

  Running, Moving, People

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Jul 18, 2012

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Lying, Intuition

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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