Top 69 Do Something Wonderful Quotes
#1. Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
Rick Riordan
#3. Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#4. All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
Patti Smith
#5. None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa
#6. When times are the toughest, don't get discouraged. God may be fixing to do something wonderful
Christine T. Monsen
#7. Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.
Robert Noyce
#8. When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
Anne Lamott
#9. The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!
Charles Kuralt
#10. I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
Jonathan Ive
#11. I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.
Anne Rice
#12. There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
K.d. Lang
#13. I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#14. I still feel like the person who shouldn't be doing this and everyone is acting around me as if I'm a badass all the time. And this still feels like a stretch. I realize this is something that is incredible. I get to do this and I get wonderful teachers to help me and it's amazing.
Kate Beckinsale
#16. I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
Amy Heckerling
#17. If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.
Blake Mycoskie
#18. They were in Julius Caesar now and the stage direction "Alarum" confused Katie. She thought it had something to do with fire engines and whenever she came to that word, she shouted out "clang-clang." The children thought it was wonderful.
Betty Smith
#19. I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man
the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
Martha Graham
#20. I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us ...
Mary Oliver
#21. To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don't have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.
Anne Michaels
#23. wonderful except when it came to eviscerating chickens. And even that was wonderful in its way, because it was something you did, and did well, that you didn't care to do. So there was a lesson in doing it. And
Philip Roth
#24. There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs ... After a while everything you do is just wonderful ... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.
Milton Resnick
#25. The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
Eric Gutkind
#26. I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
David Duchovny
#27. One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined ... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
Jeremy Brett
#28. If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.
Carol Burnett
#29. You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else.
Eva Marie Saint
#30. It must seem like the world is ending, but wait and see what God will do. He must have something wonderful in mind.
Rachel Hauck
#31. With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.
Helen Mirren
#32. All I want, oh dear friend of mine, is for you to go out with someone. Do something, even if it's not the magical, wonderful thing you had in mind. Don't sit around for one more second pining away for some fantasy that might never come along, because it might not even exist.
Lauren Morrill
#33. You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.
Ralph Marston
#34. I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.
Mike Huckabee
#35. It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.
Richard P. Gabriel
#36. I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
Harry Houdini
#37. The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God's realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.
Corrie Ten Boom
#38. How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?
Lemony Snicket
#39. After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.
Kate Winslet
#41. When I reached for the button on her jeans, she smacked my hands away. "I think I can do that," she said. "Are you sure?" I teased. "Because I'm here at your service and taking your jeans off is something I feel I'd be exceptionally wonderful at." Her lips twitched. "I'm sure you would be.
J. Lynn
#42. I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.
Harvey Korman
#43. I want to do something splendid ... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.
Louisa May Alcott
#44. Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.
Carrie Preston
#45. I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.
Michael Kirby
#46. 'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.
Stephen Chbosky
#47. There were so many points where I was like, 'I can't do this.' It was too exhausting. It's just a lot, and then suddenly something happens, and your career changes, and it's so much fun and wonderful. I look back on those moments, and I'm so glad I didn't give up.
Marisa Coughlan
#48. It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
L. S. Lowry
#49. We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
Andy Rooney
#50. There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast,or a few gathered friends into a festival. Anyone with a talent of happiness can do this, not only the rich.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#51. What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
Malorie Blackman
#52. As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.
Anselm Kiefer
#53. L.A. is wonderful. They have something called sleep dentistry. You just go there, and they put you to sleep and go, 'Drrrrrr,' and by the time you wake up a few hours later, you have a whole new set of teeth. I mean, whatever you want them to do.
Preity Zinta
#54. One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.
Lawrence Halprin
#55. I always like using different muscles, you can take that however you want. But doing something once a year is fantastic, I highly recommended it if you can do it. It's a wonderful thing, it's very freeing and I can put a lot of energy and attention onto it and it's something I love doing.
Ellen DeGeneres
#56. Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
Maya Angelou
#57. That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
Amy Tan
#58. I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
Emily Blunt
#59. Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
Jimmy Carter
#60. There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.
Paul Eenhoorn
#61. I didn't say wonderful, I say eminent domain is something you need Chris. Eminent domain - if I build a highway - go ahead. I know exactly what you're saying. But if I build a highway, and if something's in the way of the highway, you're going to have to do something with that.
Donald Trump
#62. Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it.
Debbi Fields
#63. This is all very wonderful," said Fenchurch a few days later, "but I do need to know what has happened to me. You see, there's this difference between us. That you lost something and found it again, and I found something and lost it. I need to find it again.
Douglas Adams
#64. We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
Dave Eggers
#65. But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
Andy Serkis
#66. I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful
Albert Einstein
#67. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.
Rock Peter
#68. When something wonderful happens...it is to be cherished in the heart and in the mind. We must not be afraid of the wonderful things, nor must we let others laugh them away from us. Only thus do we learn how to hold our dreams.
Elizabeth Yates
#69. If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.
Rene Russo
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