[ doing Quotes ]
178 Quotations
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
[ Genius ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
26 votes
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
[ Action ]
Aristotle
25 votes
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
[ Morality ]
Isaac Asimov
25 votes
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
[ Service ]
Louis Auchincloss
24 votes
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
[ Pleasure ]
Walter Bagehot
25 votes
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
[ Uniqueness ]
Tallulah Bankhead
25 votes
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
[ Belief ]
Joel A. Barker
24 votes
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
[ Happiness ]
Sir James M. Barrie
22 votes
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
[ Giving ]
Henry Ward Beecher
25 votes
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
[ Mistakes ]
Arnold Bennett
19 votes
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
[ Common Sense ]
Josh Billings
25 votes
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
[ Enjoyment ]
Ray Bradbury
20 votes
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
[ Fantasy ]
Stewart Brand
27 votes
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
[ Impossibility ]
Louis D. Brandeis
22 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ]
Wernher Von Braun
18 votes
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
[ Inspiration ]
Robert Bresson
15 votes
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
[ Quality ]
Steve Brown
23 votes
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
[ Preparation ]
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
27 votes
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
[ Injustice ]
Samuel Butler
22 votes
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
[ Cheerfulness ]
Samuel Butler
17 votes
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
[ Reason ]
Thomas Carlyle
27 votes
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
[ Suffering ]
Thomas Carlyle
16 votes
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
[ Excellence ]
Andrew Carnegie
18 votes
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
[ Enjoyment ]
Dale Carnegie
20 votes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
[ Charity ]
Miguel De Cervantes
23 votes
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
[ Insanity ]
Chinese Proverb
22 votes
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
Chinese Proverb
19 votes
It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
[ Achievement ]
Winston Churchill
14 votes
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
[ Justice ]
Marcus T. Cicero
23 votes
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
[ Genius ]
Leonardo Da Vinci
20 votes
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
[ Fame ]
Miles Davis
21 votes
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
[ Knowledge ]
Edgar Degas
19 votes
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
[ Potential ]
Margaret Deland
15 votes
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
[ Injustice ]
Democritus
21 votes
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
[ Enjoyment ]
Chauncey Depew
18 votes