Doing Quotes

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

~ Robert Bresson

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

~ William Shakespeare

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It's about doing more good.

~ Jochen Zeitz

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

~ J. P. Morgan

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

~ Hippocrates

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

~ Dorothea Dix

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

~ Sophocles

Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe it. It's like, how is this possible?

~ Toni Tennille

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

~ Rony Abovitz

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

~ Tina Brown

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

~ Ethan Hawke

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

~ Whoopi Goldberg

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

~ Chris Hughes

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

~ John Adams

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

~ Cornelius Vanderbilt

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.

~ George Harrison

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

~ Lord Acton

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

~ Jonathan Edwards

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

~ Maya Rudolph

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

~ Harold Prince

I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

~ Justin Timberlake

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

~ Jimmy Wales

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

~ Don Rickles

People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

~ Patti Scialfa

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

~ John Mayer

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

~ S. E. Hinton

Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

~ Lawrence Bender

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

~ Dale Carnegie

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

~ Plato

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

~ William P. Leahy

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

~ Chris Hardwick

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

~ William S. Burroughs

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

~ Jim Rohn

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

~ Theodore C. Sorensen

The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?

~ Satya Nadella

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

~ Barbara Sher

It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It's another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, 'No, that's not a conservative position, that's not what we're doing.'

~ Jeff Duncan

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.

~ Raoul Peck

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

~ Kamala Harris