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Doing Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
- Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to…
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may…
- Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period,…
- As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
- The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.…
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
- If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who…
- Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
- If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run…
- As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,…
- I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it…
- Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise…
- Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
- Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be…
More Doing Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well… — Neil Armstrong
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov