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Doing Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;…
- What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
- There is always a best way of doing everything.
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What…
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
- I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
- Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
- People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do…
- Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form…
- Doing well is a result of doing good.
- Skill to do comes of doing.
- Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems…
- I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion, -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men of…
- Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. Theydid not know it was a…
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