Doing Quotes

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.

I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

I'm not a guy who can go in and go, "Hey, are we doing right or wrong?" I just do it. And whatever it is, it is.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

If something is worth doing right, it is worth doing right now.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

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

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing...you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

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.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

Consistently ask yourself: 'Is what I'm doing right now working for me or working against me?

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

Saying and doing are two things.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

I enjoy doing nothing.

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.