Saying And Doing Quotes

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.

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.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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

On doing what you want to do.

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

History is the same thing over and over again.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel’d and parted.

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.

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

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.

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