Deliberate Quotes

• When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

  Andrew Jackson

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

  Gary Ryan

  Persistence, Goal, Effort

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

  Tony Hsieh

  Winning, Effort, Conscious

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.

  Craig Groeschel

  Wave, Intention, Reacting

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• Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Desire, Action, Inspired

  Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.49, Sounds True

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• Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

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• The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand is worth more than its weight in gold. What we want things to be, we come to see them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from his point of view.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Honesty, Roots, Views

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• Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

  George Bellows

  Thoughtful, Trying, Done

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• The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.

  Darren Hardy

  Greatness, Keys, Effort

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Nov 04, 2013

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• There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

  Douglas Merrill

  Action

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• It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Army

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.147, Princeton University Press

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• Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

  Eric Hoffer

  Originality, Protest

  'Passionate State of Mind' (1955) p. 21

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• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Faith, God

  "Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes".

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• Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Decision, Enlightenment, Grows

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• Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.

  Dan S Kennedy

  Meaningful, Moving, Opportunity

  Dan S. Kennedy (2013). “No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity”, p.74, Entrepreneur Press

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• Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Civilization, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.58, Rajpal & Sons

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• One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Blessing, Practice, Grace

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• I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

  Neil Peart

  Art, Play, Want

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• What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Violence, Wanted

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Grace, Soul

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• Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Practice, Determined, Environment

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• It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

  Isaac Watts

  Passion, Perfect, Mind

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.430

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