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Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought ...
MENCIUS And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
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MENCIUS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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DEYTH BANGER We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS When I know what to do, everything is so easy.
LORRIN L. LEE When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evi...
G. K. CHESTERTON The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what t...
ERIC HOFFER O! what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
MARCEL PROUST Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
LEWIS CASSEN This was not right, we need to know that these men will pay for what they do.
CRUZ CARDER In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW Do what you love and the money will follow.
MARSHA SINETAR Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Happiness is not about what you do, it's about how you do what you do.
ROEL VAN SLEEUWEN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.
FREDRIK BACKMAN China has to calculate how to respond to not annoy the (Taiwan) populace and not fall into Chen's tr...
GEORGE TSAI Who cares what THEY think, what do YOU think? You can't control others' perception of you, so just b...
DAN O'DONNELL They just wanted to make her birthday special. This is what Chelsea wanted to do.
MARSHA BERRY WHY YOU DO, is more important than WHAT YOU DO.
RODNEY LOVELL Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start busines...
KEVIN J. DONALDSON Men do not attract what they want, but what they are.
JAMES ALLEN O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not let the dream killers stay in your path. You will know them by what they steal from you rathe...
KIM BOOHER Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
RICHARD SALANT When going on the journey of life we should always put caution to the wind and have strength in ever...
GARY F EVANS... To have the strength to go and fulfil your hopes and dreams is an aim worth your while indeed, but i...
GARY F EVANS... If we tempt fate we can go over like a roller coaster coming to the end of its tracks.Fate has its o...
GARY F EVANS... They will be given to justice. They have committed a murder, and let justice decide. Let the courts ...
HAMID KARZAI I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do...
C. MOORER Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
PETER MCWILLIAMS Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say,' said Ove
FREDRIK BACKMAN One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works...
MEISTER ECKHART Men blaspheme what they do not know.
BLAISE PASCAL The CMC will have to determine what they will do,
PETER BEATTIE I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potent...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't h...
WALTER LINN It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't...
WALTER LINN It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't h...
WALTER LINN People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what...
ROBERT FOGEL True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained...
JONATHAN EDWARDS True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained...
JONATHAN EDWARDS They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Do well what you do. And do it conscious that you ought to be leaders among men.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, wh...
GEORGE SAINTSBURY Our contribution could be contingent on what they (the fire district) decide to do.
GENE BROCKMAN They will go in thinking they can win. But to their credit, they do they best they can do with what ...
CATHY ALEXANDER “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich to...
LUDWIG VON MISES You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES They want to look at more recreational options. They are trying to decide what to do.
LINDA LANTERMAN This is a means of not letting organized sports take over green space, because they will. It's not t...
ANNA SHUFORD Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
T.H. WHITE “You can’t do what You ONLY never tried to do.”
MAGED MAHROUS What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE What is done to children, they will do to society.
KARL MENNINGER They truly feel they have nothing left. I'm not sure what the end point will be. But I do predict th...
DAVID REMES We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Many are arrogant because of the knowledge they possess, but they have no knowledge of how arrogant ...
MADDY MALHOTRA I hope not, The staff is free to choose what they want to do.
SHARON MOSS Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will ...
TEGAN QUIN They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.
ABBE SIEYES At the end, what matters is that you tried
SOTONYE ANGA People do what they don't need to do , and don't do what they need to do .
BIBLEBILL Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do s...
WILLIAM HEWLETT The defensive backs, they will do what they have to do. But the best thing for us to do is get our h...
MIKE RUCKER What's done to children, they will do to society.
KARL A. MENNINGER I get Will and Tommy back and let them do what they do, and go back to the idea that we really don't...
BARRY SONNENFELD The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their ne...
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