Things To Do Quotes

• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.40, Delta

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

  Diana Vreeland

  Paris, Firsts, Born

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• There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

  Howard Schultz

  Wise, Believe, Bystanders

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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• I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

  Kalle Lasn

  Night, Coins, Honest

  "Culture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must". Book by Kalle Lasn, 1999.

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• To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Integrity, Risk, Done

  Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life”, p.35, Penguin

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• Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Teacher, Math

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• ... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

  Keith Jarrett

  Taken, Player, Musician

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• It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Addiction, Drug, Challenges

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• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Intelligent, Obsession, Release

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

  Anne Holm

  Brave, Might, Faces

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• If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there’s no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you’d never have to face otherwise.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Jesus, Character, Issues

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

  James Sinegal

  Wages, Good Business, Employee

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• I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.

  Princess Diana

  Hands, People, Normal

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