Deliberate Quotes

• We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

  

  Aristotle
  • Ends
  • Means
  • Deliberate

• When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

  

  Aristotle
  • Ends
  • Means
  • Deliberate

• I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Very
  • Actually
  • Deliberate

• 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
  • Decision
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

  

  Sallust
  • Deliberate
  • Execute
  • Vigour

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

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Desire

• Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beautiful part is that I have carte blanche.

  

  Joseph Wapner
  • Beautiful
  • Decide
  • Even

• 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 Rush
  • Head
  • Deliberate
  • Improviser

• Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Care
  • Chief Aim

• It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Choice
  • Films

• His reddish hair is rumpled, but in a deliberate I'm-in-a-boy-band way.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Hair
  • Boy-band
  • Pumpled

• If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.

  

  Kathleen Rooney
  • Perspective
  • Clear
  • Reader

• I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Grace
  • Deliberate

• Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

  

  William Gaddis
  • Stupid
  • Ignorance
  • Stupidity

• The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Government
  • Portrait
  • Resolutions

• Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Violence
  • Fire
  • Deliberate

• We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Strength
  • Deliberate

• Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

  

  Jane Austen
  • Time
  • Judge
  • Deliberate

• Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.

  

  Gary Hallinan
  • Children
  • Passionate
  • Deliberate

• When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Passionate
  • Constant
  • Knitters

• The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Deliberate

• This result could have been achieved either by his God endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • God
  • Memories
  • Judge

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

  

  Darren Hardy
  • Effort
  • Greatness
  • Unlocks

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