Sayings about Doing
If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. ~ Traditional Proverb
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. ~ Traditional Proverb
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~ Italian Proverb
Those who can’t dance say the music is no good. ~ Jamaican Proverbs
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. ~ Chinese Proverb
You are not great just because you say you are. ~ South African Proverb
The man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt a man who is doing it. ~ Chinese Proverb
The wise man doesn’t say what he does but he never does what can’t be said. ~ Chinese Proverb
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. ~ French Proverb
Doing is better than saying. ~ Traditional Proverb
One who does what he says is not a coward. ~ African Proverb
To talk goodness is not good . . . only to do it is. ~ Chinese Proverb
God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now. ~ African-American Proverbs
Talking doesn’t get your rice cooked. ~ Chinese Proverb
Saying is one thing, and doing another. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is a deep sea between saying and doing. ~ Italian Proverbs
First do it, then say it. ~ Russian Proverbs
Quotations about Doing
You try to do your best at what you’re getting paid for. ~ Sean Penn
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it! ~ Marie Corelli
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. ~ Dale Carnegie
You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow. ~ Oprah Winfrey
You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can’t talk yourself out of. ~ Constantine Karamanlis
You can only do your best. That’s all you can do. And if it isn’t good enough, it isn’t good enough. ~ Imelda Staunton
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. ~ Jimmy Carter
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself. ~ W. Clement Stone
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts. ~ Eva Le Gallienne
We have to do the impossible, but it is possible. ~ Kevin Garnett
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ~ Albert Einstein
Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
To give your best is to receive the best. ~ Raymond Holliwell
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and shrinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. ~ Sydney Smith
There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no right way to do something wrong. ~ Author Unknown
The trouble with most people is they think there’s only one right way to do anything. ~ Velda Johnston
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. ~ Winifred Holtby
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. ~ Donald Riggs
The Law of Win/Win says, let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way. ~ Greg Anderson
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. ~ Edward Simmons
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don’t like to do. ~ Albert Gray
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — is the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard — reaching for the highest that is in us — becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. ~ Zig Ziglar
Success lies not in being the best, but in doing your best. ~ Author Unknown
Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right. ~ John Gray
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want. ~ Anthony Robbins
Success has a simple formula: do your best and people may like it. ~ Sam Ewing
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. ~ Greer Garson
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be. ~ Tori Amos
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. ~ David Letterman
People only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don’t enjoy. ~ Jack Nicklaus
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk. ~ Ayn Rand
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ~ Frederick W. Robertson
Nothing is worth making that does not make the man. ~ Author Unknown
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. ~ George Bernard Shaw
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.~ Oprah Winfrey
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ~ Louis D. Brandeis
Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing — and does it well. ~ Merrill E. Root
Live like you’re already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you. ~ Jeff Bridges
It’s simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do. ~ John R. Amos
It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~ Winston Churchill
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best. ~ W. Edwards Deming
In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it. ~ Alan Kulwicki
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. ~ Will Rogers
If you try to do your best there is no failure. ~ Mike Farrell
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Albert Schweitzer
If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don’t talk about it… do it. ~ George W. Biount
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. ~ Tony Robbins
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ~ Anita Roddick
If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. ~ Robert Hillyer
If a man does his best, what else is there? ~ George S. Patton
If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. ~ Traditional Proverbs
If a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard. ~ Scott Adams
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you’re forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. ~ John Polkinghorne
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. ~ Margaret Mead
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. ~ Magic Johnson
I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you’re going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy. ~ Gina Gershon
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I like my hands. They do most of the talking. ~ Abbey Lee Kershaw
I don’t think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best. ~ Townes Van Zandt
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing; I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. ~ Abraham Lincoln
I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. ~ Edgar Winter
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. ~ Robert Heinlein
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~ Epictetus
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence — doing your best. ~ Sir Lawrence Olivier
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. ~ Mary Kay Ash
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. ~ Vance Havner
Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. ~ David O. Mckay
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to. ~ Bob Cousy
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you fear most and you control fear. ~ Tom Hopkins
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. ~ Lou Holtz
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ~ Andrew Carnegie
Big men become big by doing what they didn’t want to do when they didn’t want to do it. ~ Author Unknown
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. ~ H. W. Dresses
As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing. ~ Spark Matsunaga
Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon. ~ Barbara Sher
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. ~ Mae West
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. ~ Steve Brown
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. ~ Elias Schwartz
Any work that’s worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That’s true if you’re running a business, it’s true if you’re trying to help on a campaign. ~ Carly Fiorina
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~ Og Mandino
Always do what you are afraid to do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the things that are worth doing, take time. ~ Mos Def
A thing well done is worth doing. ~ Hugh Leonard
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. ~ John Ruskin
A problem is your chance to do your best. ~ Duke Ellington
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~ Duke Ellington
A leader knows what’s best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. ~ Ken Adelman
A job worth doing is worth doing together. ~ Author Unknown
