Doe Quotes - Page 168

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.

Every time you consider a job, you have to check in with your inner compass and say, ‘Does this fit in with how I see what the work is for? Is this going to be something interesting and valuable to contribute to the world?’

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.