Top 100 Do Well Quotes
#1. The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
Sam Altman
#2. You are mine, Aisling. You are mine today, tomorrow and five hundred years from now. You will always be mine. I do not give up my treasures, kincsem. You would do well to remember that.
Katie MacAlister
#3. When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?
Joan Bauer
#4. Arie, would you like to interview me? I think you'd be good at it."
"After centuries of living there are two things I do well - fighting and fucking.
A.C. James
#5. I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
Judd Apatow
#6. For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
Thomas Aquinas
#7. The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.
Andy Richter
#8. The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
Bono
#9. The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Sarah Palin
#10. One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.
Ted Malloch
#11. You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.
Rick Riordan
#12. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.
David Jeremiah
#13. High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.
John Eliot
#14. My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.
Eli Roth
#15. People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.
John C. Maxwell
#16. That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.
Matt Damon
#17. I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.
Kim Clijsters
#18. Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.
Anna Friel
#19. I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.
Larry McMurtry
#21. You always study the players you go against. You try and stay ahead of it. Those guys are just too good to just show up on Sunday and think you're going to do well. Every week it seems like there's an all-star out there - to me, anyway. Every week is a rodeo. You just hope for the best.
Tom Ashworth
#22. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen
#23. I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
Caitlyn Jenner
#24. It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.
Nick Jonas
#25. Never be embarrassed by the things you cannot do. Be embarrassed by the things you can do and don't do well.
Len Wein
#26. More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.
Juliet Marillier
#27. Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.
James O'Shaughnessy
#28. They want me to kill him because he didn't do well on their tests. This is a mismatch. I am Darwin's scythe. Nature scraping away the chaff.
Pierce Brown
#29. What did he see, I wonder? What avenue opened before him? A sudden way through, an escape from all the torment? Or was it just the venal act of a selfish child, wanting to somehow punish the woman standing before him ... just passing the guilt along, as cowards will do. Well,
Steven Erikson
#30. Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
Aldous Huxley
#31. The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.
Mario J. Molina
#32. People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.
Mindy Kaling
#33. I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.
Leona Lewis
#34. I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.
Agatha Christie
#35. And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
Meg Ryan
#36. We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
Jonathan Sumption
#37. I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
Michael Moore
#38. Jerry: If you always want less, in words as well as things, you'll do well as a writer.
Judd Apatow
#39. You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I'll still have a lot of friends to watch. I'll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I'll probably miss the tennis more.
Andy Roddick
#40. I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.
Lennox Lewis
#41. People want to fit in and do well, and so they do indescribably stupid things.
David Lagercrantz
#42. In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.
Tim Curry
#43. Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.
Noam Chomsky
#44. I think, sir,' said Demelza, 'that your apricot tart is about to be laced viz cream and rum, and you would do well to discover wezzer you can attempt zat.
Winston Graham
#45. You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#46. I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom Cruise
#47. If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.
William Shakespeare
#48. Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together - man, you got it.
Colin Powell
#49. School is only hard when you care about doing well. And when you're the stupid one in the family, no one expects you to do well.
Lauren Oliver
#50. Instead of thinking about other people's thoughts and views of you, just think "I have to do well myself", and you'll be able to do well.
Yesung
#51. You never really think about what happens after the Olympics - you're just like, 'I want to compete. I want to do well' and thinking about that. After it all happened, it was such a whirlwind. I've gotten to do so many amazing things. My favorite thing was getting into acting.
McKayla Maroney
#52. I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
Wendy Davis
#53. Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.
Jim Fixx
#54. I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.
Jessica Ennis
#55. We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#57. The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
Howard Gardner
#58. Dr. Edward Clarke, a Harvard professor, said it was possible for a girl to study hard and do well in everything, but it would damage her health for the rest of her life, and her children would be shriveled.
Jacky Fleming
#59. Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.
Ryan Sheckler
#60. My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#61. The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
Magic Johnson
#62. You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
John F. Kerry
#63. No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.
Sebastian Bach
#64. I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed.
Brian Cox
#65. Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.
Antonio Perez
#66. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.
William Cowper
#67. Leaders today would do well to model the heart of the second king of Israel, one who did not seek his own will, one who readily confessed sin and shortcomings, and one who allowed God to mold him into a powerful influence. David had a willing heart and willing hands, and he was willing to lead!
Teresa Hampton
#68. If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.
Frederick Lenz
#69. Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?"10 However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."11 Wow!
James MacDonald
#70. I thought guys liked that kind of thing." "Some do." "Well, evidently you do, too. Taryn is all those things, too, only Ginger has a personality." "Okay, then I used to like that kind of thing. Now I like your kind of thing. It's the
M. Leighton
#71. National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.
Corazon Aquino
#72. I want to do well and I want to fit in.
Ray Romano
#73. I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I do well understand the difference between legislating and judging. As a judge, it is not my function to develop public policy.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#74. I've always been a guy that doesn't do well waiting for people to say, "You can act." It's always been a part of me.
Matthew Lillard
#75. I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do.
Kelly Slater
#76. Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type
Fran Lebowitz
#77. You would do well to listen more and talk less, boy.
Rick Riordan
#78. There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
Ben Lovett
#79. Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.
Oliver Lodge
#80. It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.
Frederick Lenz
#81. Children who eat breakfast are statistically more likely to do well at school than children who skip breakfast.
Nessa Carey
#82. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
Gore Vidal
#83. I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
Eddie Van Halen
#84. I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character-the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.
Jose Saramago
#85. You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.
Mitch Gaylord
#86. I'm not this big Hollywood mainstream actress, but who cares? I think I just have a certain sensibility for smaller projects. I like intimate things. I think I do well in that kind of environment. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't love to do bigger projects. I feel everyone has their own journey.
Melonie Diaz
#87. If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
Thomas Paine
#88. I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations
Winston S. Churchill
#89. You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
Peter Lynch
#90. January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions.
David Keating
#91. And for the sake of humility
a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.
David Dark
#92. What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.
Kim Cattrall
#93. They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.
Matthew Henry
#94. I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition.
Carrie Underwood
#95. A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.
Vincent De Paul
#96. Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#97. We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Joseph Joubert
#98. Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.
Steve Mariucci
#99. Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
#100. Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
Nicholas Hoult
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