Top 100 Do The Thing Quotes
#1. I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
#2. You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.
Jennifer Rowe
#3. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#4. What if, I show the negative of something will you to do the thing which you are doing???
Deyth Banger
#6. I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.
Lyle Lovett
#7. Fear is a conditioned response, a life-draining habit that can easily consume your energy, creativity and spirit if you are not careful. When fear rears its ugly head, beat it down quickly. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear. Fast.
Robin S. Sharma
#8. What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
Debbi Fields
#9. We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
George MacDonald
#10. I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.
Michelle Williams
#12. I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#13. It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive.
Susan E. Isaacs
#14. The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.
Martha Beck
#15. Perhaps one of these days she'd surprise herself and not actually do the thing that was right and proper and best for all concerned. And probably give herself heart failure from the shock.
Jo Victor
#16. To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Jacques Derrida
#18. I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.
Mike Birbiglia
#19. I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can.
Aubrey Plaza
#20. There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.
Terry Pratchett
#21. With habits, we don't make decisions, we don't use self-control, we just do the thing we want ourselves to do - or that we don't want to do.
Gretchen Rubin
#22. When it comes to the thing you love to do, the thing you were made to do, aim high. The odds matter little. Whether you fall down along the way matters little.
John C. Maxwell
#23. Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
Albert Pike
#24. I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.
Jane Smiley
#25. I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
John Sayles
#26. SO DO THE THING. TAKE THE LEAP. TRY SOMETHING RIDICULOUS, OR CRAZY, OR BRAVE. NO MATTER HOW IT TURNS OUT, YOU WILL NEVER REGRET CHOOSING TO LIVE - WILD, BOLD, AND FREE.
Mandy Hale
#27. Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
John Green
#28. When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.
Martha Beck
#29. To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Samuel Butler
#30. Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's in front of you.
Corban Addison
#32. Stop thinking ... Start doing. Think less ... Do more. Do the thing ... And you will know the way.
Hal Elrod
#33. The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.
L.J.Smith
#34. He doesn't tell the snow to that and become tain, or the rain to freeze itself into snow. He says, essentially: do your thing. Do the thing that you love to do, that you've been created to do.
Shauna Niequist
#35. It was a boat. Of course, the common word "boat" didn't do the thing justice. Wayne stared at the massive construction, searching for a better description. One that would capture the majesty, the incredible scale, of the thing he was seeing. "That's a damn big boat," he finally whispered.
Brandon Sanderson
#36. And he showed Shadow how to do the thing.
Neil Gaiman
#37. Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at thirtythree. Don't think you're special and the Lord's gonna bless you with time.
Jill S. Alexander
#38. Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do.
George Lucas
#39. The only way to overcome your fears is to do the thing you fear.
Brian Tracy
#40. How many people do you think get to do the thing they love for work? -Takano Masamune to Onodera Ritsu
Shungiku Nakamura
#41. I realized then that there was actual relief in his expression. That he was pleased to see me in a way he wasn't actually going to be able to say. And I told myself that it was going to have to be enough. I wod do the thing he had asked for. That would have to be enough.
Jojo Moyes
#42. You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.
Rob Zombie
#43. Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now ... it's like quitting before you start.
Jacqueline Susann
#44. You just have to hold it in your mind, and it's yours to take from. The sun's treasure. It's there in those moments when the world makes a rainbow. It's there in the moment of eclipse and the moment of the storm." And he showed Shadow how to do the thing. This time Shadow got it.
Neil Gaiman
#45. One of the truisms of CrossFit is that you should do the thing you hate most, because it's only in mastery that the hate will dissipate.
Stephen Madden
#46. Start doing the thing to have energy to do the thing
Bob Proctor
#47. Let's just do the thing where we go and see whatever starts next.
John Green
#49. You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done ... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.
Guy Finley
#50. In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.
James Comey
#51. I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Anna Paquin
#52. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
#53. When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#54. Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
Nuala O'Faolain
#55. You don't need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you're trying to do. And then you need to do it.
Ann Leckie
#56. When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.
Elisabeth Elliot
#57. Want the thing you've never had? Then do the thing you've never done.
Josh Linkner
#59. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
Madonna Ciccone
#60. Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.
William Eckhardt
#61. An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
Carl Andre
#62. So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it.
Mahmoud Reda
#63. If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.
Brian Tracy
#64. I'm just happy that I'm able to take care of what I need to take care of, live, and do the thing that I love the most and that is to sing. People want to hear it, buy it, see it, hold it, record it, bootleg it. It's fine with me as long as it's good but when it's bad I'm in trouble!
Ledisi
#65. Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.
Michelle Kwan
#67. I try to go out, check out the town, and have a good time. It's a life experience: not everyone gets the chance to see the world and play golf, do the thing you love while travelling.
Peter Uihlein
#68. Only do the thing we are best at doing and enjoy most.
Richard Koch
#70. Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
Stendhal
#71. It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Jim Henson
#72. You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.
Joseph Campbell
#73. The Boy came to me in the autumn of 2009. He was in a corner of my mind, choking on his own bad dreams, begging a man not to have him do the thing again.
I didn't want to know what the thing was, so I hid The Boy in a crowd of less troubling voices.
Magaly Guerrero
#74. Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it ... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie
#75. Sometimes to be safe, you have to do the thing that scares you the most.
Falafel Jones
#76. You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.
Al Koran
#77. If he knew, he'd never allow her to do the thing she needed to do most.
Jackie Castle
#78. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
Joan Sutherland
#79. In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.
Jeff Lindsay
#80. You either have to be utterly common place or else do the thing people don't want, because it has not yet been invented. No really new and original thing is wanted: people have to learn to like new things.
Willa Cather
#81. I think one must do the thing
whatever it is (and it changes from time to time)
that unites you to the flowing stream of the world. At any price, one must do it first. Otherwise one can do nothing, nothing at all. One is out of touch, out of grace.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#82. It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#83. Doesn't make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can.
Annie Roe Carr
#84. When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.
Rick Perlstein
#85. 'American Idol' is a juggernaut ... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.
Taylor Hicks
#86. Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
#87. I'm just dying to return to the Octagon and do the thing I most love in my life. That's what I want right now.
Anderson Silva
#88. If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.
Kelly Miller
#89. Do the thing you long to do and become the person you're destined to be.
Karen McQuestion
#90. Do the thing you fear, it's sure to disappear.
Susan Jeffers
#91. So I do the thing most reasonable people would in my situation. I run.
Rick Yancey
#92. Always do the thing that makes you feel most alive.
Marty Rubin
#93. If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
Malcolm Gladwell
#94. Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
Robert Collier
#95. You, friend, are on a quest." "I don't know what that is," said Despereaux. "You don't have to know. You just have to feel compelled to do the thing, the impossible, important task at hand.
Kate DiCamillo
#96. The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley
#97. 1. Be honest. Don't complicate things.
2. Do what scares you the most.
3. Always do the thing that could get you arrested.
4. Don't be afraid of reality.
Shana Norris
#98. For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.
Albert Einstein
#99. Do the thing itself. Don't pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don't ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.
Holland Taylor
#100. Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.
Michael Gira
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