In this post, you will find great Doing Quotes from famous people, such as Thomas J. Watson, Walter Bagehot, Bo Jackson, Timothy Leary, Horace Mann. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I love going out and doing new things.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I’m doing.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it.
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
I just think I’m blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95, and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life, and that’s what I’m doing.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
Everything I’ve ever thought about doing has been, in some sense, about helping people.
I’ve tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That’s why you hear people call me a ‘hybrid goalie’ and say I adjust to the situation, never doing the same thing over and over like a butterfly goalie. I try to see what works and hopefully with my talent I’m able to play it and make it happen.
Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone‘s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.
I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven‘t been to or gone to before.
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly first.
Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we’re becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don’t think the desire for that magic will ever go away.
I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully improve on the status quo, and in so doing, we can help small businesses, large businesses, and those in between.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Dreams don’t have deadlines. I’m thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
I realized that my success comes from doing the things I love most.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.
I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.
I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.
We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.
I’m a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.
I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, ‘Eh, I think she can handle more.’ And the angels thinking, ‘What are you doing? You’re a lunatic.’ And God being like, ‘No, no, trust me. She can handle this.’
People ask ‘do you make a conscious effort not to swear?’ – if you’re doing silly stuff you’re not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
If you built a successful company the first time, it’s really important not to fall into the trap of resting on your laurels and doing the same thing the next time. It’s stepping into the unknown that enables you to create something fresh, new, and innovative.
If I don’t feel confident about my body, I’m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It’s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it’s fitness or whatever. It’s about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.
Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourself.
No matter what you do, people are always going to have something negative to say about it. You could spend your life constantly trying to seek people’s approval and validation, but there is always going to be someone that has something negative to say about what you’re doing.
My life isn’t focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I’m doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Yes, it’s absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I’m doing.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I’m a lazy person, but if I’m not absent-mindedly doing something, I can’t really relax. I can’t just veg out.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it.
Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.
Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
Success, to me, is just doing things that I’m really proud of.
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
When you’re doing what you love, it’s not exhausting at all, actually. It’s completely empowering and exhilarating.
If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me.
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don’t know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
Legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I’m doing for the next generation.
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
I really like doing good work and working with good people – that’s the thing that drives me.
If you work hard and enjoy what you are doing and go after your dreams anything is possible.
Look up from what you’re doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you’re in.
Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take.
I love changing hair color. I love doing hair shape. I love the social aspect of salons. I love clients, and because of doing hair, I’ve heard so many life stories.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
I believe more in looking after yourself than in doing make-up. So if it’s skin care versus make-up or taking care of your inner body instead of just looking good, choose the former. You will end up looking good in whatever you wear.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
It’s not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
I’m confident in who I am, and I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m just being myself: being comfortable with my body, comfortable with my sound, and I’m figuring out who I am.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
My mom and dad are from the streets. My mom’s from Chicago. My dad’s from Memphis. My dad got out of school and got with my mom. They were hustlers. They were from the streets. They were doing their thing. The streets ain’t got no love for the streets. You can light up the streets, or be a victim of the streets.
My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.
My philosophy is: If you can’t have fun, there’s no sense in doing it.
History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
I am very excited about the prospect of using cryptocurrency, not just as a money equivalent, but using it as a way to earn something as a result of doing some type of work.
If you’re not having fun it’s not worth doing.
Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
As long as you are doing things with a smile on your face, and you are having fun, then you are being unfiltered.
Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren’t doing it right.
Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.
You have to believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing all the time.
I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
You can’t satisfy everybody. If you do, you’re probably doing something wrong.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
I’m always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It’s the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what you’re doing.
There’s a time in your life where you’re not quite sure where you are. You think everything’s perfect, but it’s not perfect… Then one day you wake up and you can’t quite picture yourself in the situation you’re in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
I’m doing my best to be mindful about how I’m living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I’m doing. It’s not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it’s just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it’s hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
My mission is to make the world happy and cute and to love everyone. I think I’m doing a pretty good job.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
There’s something you do when you’re completely confident that just can’t be replicated when you know you’re doing something wrong.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don’t know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.
Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact – good or bad. And I think that’s why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we’re doing is making an impact.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing.
I love doing the stunts. It’s as simple as that.
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.
There’s no wrong or right with fitness. It’s whatever you enjoy and whatever you can keep up and keep doing.
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
I’m having fun. I’m being myself. I’m doing what I love. That’s all that matters.
Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
I’m constantly doing new stuff. I’m always excited. I’m a one-man tornado.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
I personally think if something’s not a challenge, there’s no point doing it, because you’re not gonna learn much.
The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can’t completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
Saying and doing are two things.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I’m sitting here and doing great.
I don’t have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
I’d rather regret doing something than not doing something.
I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it’s during a performance, practice, or doing an interview.
Life is short. Don’t do the same thing everyone else is doing – that’s such a herd mentality. And don’t do something that’s two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.
I don’t think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.
The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
