do quotes

“You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.”

— Dolly Parton

“The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.”

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

— William Shakespeare

“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”

“If you think you can do it, you can.”

— John Burroughs

“I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.”

— Paul McCartney

“Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. ”

“Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.”

— Christina Aguilera

“What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.”

— Jonathan Swift

“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”

— Margaret Mead

“Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.”

— Harvey Fierstein

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.”

“If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.”

— Billy Sheehan

“I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.”

— Billy Sheehan

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert Harold Schuller

“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

— Robert Harold Schuller

“I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.”

— Willie Mays

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”

— Meryl Streep

“You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.”

— Meryl Streep

“Everything we do impacts someone else's life.”

— Nicolas Cage

“I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.”

— Ben Affleck

“If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.”

— Tim Robbins