Things To Do Quotes (page 22)

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• baseball
• perhaps
• repeat

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. Walt Alston

• findings
• do it yourself
• ifs

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. Fred Allen

• people
• pleasantly
• beats

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. Muhammad Ali

• time
• experience
• wellness

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. John Abizaid

• mind
• progress
• life

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind. Agnes Martin

• life
• value
• interest

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• good
• look
• excuses

To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead. Fay Weldon

• feeling
• thinking
• doing

To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that. Lynndie England

• wishes
• mind
• mindfulness

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. Robert Southey

• weekend
• sunday
• vacation

Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.' He'd said all this before, to others; he wondered if he'd said it to her. 'It's like weekend homework. Remember? There wasn't ever a time you absolutely had to do it - there was always Saturday, then Sunday - but then there wasn't ever a time when it wasn't there to do, too.' 'How awful.' ... John Crowley

• respect
• perfect
• common

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. Harriet Beecher Stowe

• saying
• beauty
• life

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. T. S. Eliot

• personality
• saying
• faith

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a... C. S. Lewis

• motivational
• love
• motivation

To be logical you have to dig up and face your own hidden motives and emotions, and of course they're hidden principally because you don't want to face them. So... um... it's easier to let your basement feelings run the upper storeys, so to speak, and the result is quarrels, love, opinions, anorexia, philanthropy... almost anything you can think of. I just like to know what's going on down there, to pick out why I truly want to do things, that's all. Then I can do them, or not. Whichever. Dick Francis

• look
• tried
• tris

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Terry Prachett