Top 100 Do Only Quotes
#2. Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.
Lao-Tzu
#3. Me: What will I do?
MK: What you always do--only in Switzerland.
Nina Stibbe
#4. The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.
A.J. Darkholme
#5. [Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.
Richard M. Nixon
#6. Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I
Robin Hobb
#7. Raised in a brothel, I'd think such a sight common for you." He approached her slowly, his gaze caressing her as he drew close. "True." He drew a delicate pattern over her bare breasts and midriff. "But you aren't common, even if you do only have two breasts.
Grace Draven
#8. Salvation: to see each thing for what it is - its nature and its purpose.
To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.
What else could it be but to live life fully - to pay out goodness
like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way
Claude C. Hopkins
#10. My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way." There
Ursula K. Le Guin
#11. He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.
Arundhati Roy
#12. Everything hinges on how you relate to your brain. By setting higher expectations, you enter a phase of higher functioning. One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.
Deepak Chopra
#13. Men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.
Baruch Spinoza
#14. A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
John Millington Synge
#15. Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.
Swami Nithyananda
#16. We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.
Charles F. Haanel
#17. I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
Donnie Yen
#18. Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been unimaginable to the founders of the republic - even those who personally repudiated orthodox Christian faith.
Charles Colson
#20. I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.
Warren Buffett
#21. Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.
Mindy Kaling
#22. Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made
H.P. Lovecraft
#23. I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
C.J. Cherryh
#24. Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
Joseph Joubert
#25. I think the big news organizations, the UPI, AP, Reuters, and the 'Sunday Times' - do take their training seriously. And I think they do only send experienced correspondents with proper insurance and proper training. And they don't force them to go where they don't want to go.
Anne Sebba
#26. When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.
Signe Baumane
#27. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
#28. Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when he does them, and in what manner are up to him. The name of Jesus, the power of his blood, and the prayer of faith have never lost their power over the centuries.
Jim Cymbala
#29. He shrugged, ... my conscience rests easiest if I do only what I see as best in the moment ...
Anihyr Moonstar
#30. I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.
Stanley Hauerwas
#31. Mary Sibley: So, love is to a woman what war is to a man: the most deadly thing they'll do. Only a fool runs quickly to war or love.
Salem
#32. Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?
Connie Willis
#33. The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.
Tony Dungy
#34. One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
Bre Pettis
#35. If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
T. Harv Eker
#36. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#37. Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
Orhan Pamuk
#38. What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
Ralph Ellison
#39. I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#40. It is impossible, he had found, if you rule, to do only good, for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he could not care about every life, every dream, every population of every world.
Neil Gaiman
#41. What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? 'If you want to continue to remain in the worldly life, then do what people say, but if you want to attain Moksha [ultimate liberation], then do only what I say, then only you can go to Moksha!
Dada Bhagwan
#42. There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak.
Jim Lee
#43. Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
Bill James
#44. Never focus on what you can't do - only imagine everything you could.
Kathryn Budig
#45. I can't tell you what to do. Only you know what is best for you, but I can tell you this much: love isn't a destination, it's a journey. You have to be willing to walk together or you will end up walking further and further apart.
Michelle Frost
#46. What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
Manolo Blahnik
#47. It is really amazing what people can do. Only they don't know what they can do.
Milton H. Erickson
#48. We should do only those things that brings us closer to the purpose of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#49. I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how it ended up there? Is it only the unschooled visitor who looks at the soaring column from the Temple of Artemis at the Met and questions why it exists in this place?
Sharon Waxman
#50. There are many ways to define what it means to be a geek, but certainly one definition has to be, Someone who does something normal people do, only while wearing special pants and talking about it constantly.
BikeSnobNYC
#51. He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.
Mike Royko
#52. Do only the greatest good, for the greatest number of people. They will do the rest.
Jessica O'Toole
#53. The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.
Wallace D. Wattles
#54. When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
Taylor Swift
#55. I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
Daniel Goleman
#56. Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
Vivienne Westwood
#57. Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#58. If she sees him again, she isn't sure what she might do. Only that it will include grievous bodily harm and possible grounds for her own firing.
Nenia Campbell
#59. I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!
Sonam Kapoor
#60. When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.
John C. Maxwell
#61. If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.
Margaret Bourke-White
#63. I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.
Karan Johar
#64. When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
Michael Caine
#65. The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles
#66. Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#67. Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.
Eric Greitens
#68. I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.
Robert Zemeckis
#69. We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do.
Yoko Ono
#70. I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best!
I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
Walt Whitman
#71. Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
Jean Cocteau
#72. Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.
Marla Runyan
#73. It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.
Vito Russo
#74. Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we're good at, we never learn anything new.
Justin Bieber
#75. I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!
Elizabeth Berkley
#76. There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
Christian Lacroix
#78. Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.
Dave Kopel
#79. If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#80. I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle.
#82. A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
Saif Ali Khan
#83. Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#84. I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
Warren G. Harding
#85. When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#86. We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing ...
Simone Weil
#87. What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
William J.H. Boetcker
#88. I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are we not here to make the transitory permanent? This we can do only if we know how to value both.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.
Mother Teresa
#90. Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
Michel De Montaigne
#91. Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
John Bunyan
#92. Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
#93. We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.
Robert Collier
#94. United States military leader General Norman Schwarzkopf stated, "Leaders need two things - character and strategy. If you can do only one, drop strategy.
E. LeBron Fairbanks
#95. Life itself moves so fast and is so mystical we often easily slip into a force-fed trance that enables us to do only a couple of basic actions, which is essentially to survive and spectate.
K. Conley
#96. But in after days Cosmo repented of having so completely dropped the old gentleman's acquaintance; he was under obligation to him; and if a man will have to do only with the perfect, he must needs cut himself first, and go out of the world.
George MacDonald
#97. None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
William Jennings Bryan
#98. But it had another layer to it, because imitating crass people was kind of liberating - like pretending to be a child or a crazy person. It was something you could do only with someone you really trusted, someone who knew how capable and good you actually were.
Miranda July
#99. Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.
John Coates
#100. If you're in a business where you can do only one thing and it doesn't work out, it's hard for your bosses to be mad at you.
Michael Lewis
