Top 100 Do What Quotes
#1. Some children do what they're told to do; some children do what they're told not to do; all children do what they're parents have done.
Iyanla Vanzant
#2. The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything.
Joy Davidman
#3. Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Rosalynn Carter
#4. My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.
Jason Mraz
#6. You do what you love, or you get arrested.
Lou Reed
#7. When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.
Dorothy Height
#8. In your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.
Jerry Rubin
#9. The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
Joyce Meyer
#11. I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#12. What I'm OK with is protecting the American people. What I'm OK with is, when people have the intent to come to this country and take American lives, that we are prepared to do what's necessary to gain the information to protect the people of this country.
Mike Pence
#13. I never realized
till now
how hard the brain has to work
to make the body do what it asks.
Or maybe how hard the body has to work
to ignore
the brain.
Thalia Chaltas
#14. Karou wasn't a prize to win; that wasn't why he was here. She was a woman and would choose her own life. He was here to do what he could, whatever he could, that she might have a life to choose, one day. Whoever and whatever that included was her own affair.
Laini Taylor
#15. The trust I have ... for some people ... comes down to how well I know them, and then it's a matter of my trusting them to do what I think they're going to do.
Steven Erikson
#16. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is Don't do what you will, do what I say.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.
Bethann Hardison
#19. Because I figure there's two kinds of people in the world. The ones who do everything that's laid out for them, the supposed-tos, and then there's the people that look above it and do what they want to do. I prefer the latter, but maybe that's just me. A not-supposed to.
Margaux Froley
#20. The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
Nandan Nilekani
#21. You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.
Amy Landecker
#22. Acknowledge your critics, but do what's right.
Gary Johnson
#23. Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
William Penn
#24. I'm just competitive. Everybody always says, 'You've gotta be crazy to do what you do.' It's not really true. Everything I do is always about trying to out-do your friends. Trying to one-up, be a little faster, a little better, jump a little further.
Travis Pastrana
#25. For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.
Sarah Harrison
#26. Let the beauty we love do what we do.
Rumi
#27. Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.
Frederick Lenz
#28. There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie
Mark Sanborn
#29. I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.
Katori Hall
#30. Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.
Kenneth Copeland
#32. I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.
Rie Rasmussen
#33. Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.
Corey Aaron Burkes
#35. They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.
Zack De La Rocha
#36. The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
John Guare
#37. If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.
Tom Weston-Jones
#38. I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week.
GG Allin
#39. Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.
Art Alexakis
#40. You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.
David Duval
#41. He's carried dead men, felt the weight of their forfeited hopes. He will do what needs to be done.
Eddie Joyce
#42. So basically you're threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don't do what you say?
(Jace, to Simon)
Cassandra Clare
#43. A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you.
Noam Chomsky
#44. I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.
Debby Ryan
#45. When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.
Candace Bushnell
#46. Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.
Bob McNair
#47. To conquer the dangers of giving up, do what your passion moves you to do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. So I do what any self-respecting competitor would. I shove him into the grass and take off.
Kristen Callihan
#49. We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
Abraham Lincoln
#50. There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.
Jacob K. Javits
#51. The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Laini Taylor
#52. My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
Andrew Young
#53. I'm in a "Love what you do" n " Do what you Love" kind of a place right now....
Saurabh Singal
#54. What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.
E'yen A. Gardner
#55. I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.
Rupert Grint
#56. You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
Holly Lisle
#57. It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day ...
James A. Murphy
#58. I describe the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing
Ben Horowitz
#59. Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.
Simone Elkeles
#60. You're in O'Kane territory now. We do what we want, and fuck whoever doesn't like it.
Kit Rocha
#61. You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
Constantine Karamanlis
#62. The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.
Brian Tracy
#63. Always do what you like, do what you want, and try your best to be happy.
Moon Jong-up
#64. One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.
Robin Hobb
#65. The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#66. The contradictory nature of the socialist utopias is one explanation of the violence involved in the attempt to impose them: it takes infinite force to make people do what is impossible.
Roger Scruton
#67. Okay, so I was conditioned to do what I was told, but I was uppity enough to do it with ill grace.
Kristen Ashley
#68. I know why you do what you do, and I get it. But from one ex-martyr to a current martyr ... get over your bullshit and ask for help.
Samantha Young
#70. Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Mark Twain
#71. Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life ... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
Dave Kellett
#72. Well, Grimm is important to me for obvious reasons. I'm lucky to be able to do what I love to do for a living. I never, ever forget that. And charity work just helps me feel like I'm doing something to support my belief that we are all one. I'd like to actually do more in the future.
Reggie Lee
#73. Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive!
Octavia E. Butler
#74. Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
Zedd
#75. A strong feeling of happiness and a strong instinct to do what's right will come to your life, when you're within your purpose and God's purpose for you.
Daniel Marques
#76. My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#78. A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.
Leeman Bennett
#79. I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
Jon Fishman
#80. When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.
Joel Stein
#82. I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.
Summer Sanders
#83. When we do what we have to do we are compliant. When we do what we choose to do we are committed.
Marshall Goldsmith
#84. God isn't honored by prayers that are within the realm of human possibility; God is honored when we ask Him to do what is humanly impossible. That way, God gets all the glory!
Mark Batterson
#85. Step ahead immediately and do what you have to do before it's too late.
Moutasem Algharati
#86. I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.
Jason Reeves
#87. If you think I'm trying to scare you, then my seduction skills need serious work. Besides, I don't need fear to control you anymore. My cock is pretty good at making you do what I want.
B.B. Reid
#88. If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
Tom Krause
#89. Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
#90. Act as though this one patient is the only person in the world - because to do otherwise is to lose that one, too. One at a time, that's all you can do. And you learn not to despair over all the ones you can't help, but only to do what you can.
Diana Gabaldon
#91. But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
Terry Kath
#92. Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.
Aleister Crowley
#93. In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
Veronica Roth
#94. When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.
Ram Dass
#95. Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
Denzel Washington
#96. I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.
John O'Keefe
#97. I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.
Naomi Campbell
#98. In life ... You have to do what is right for you. Nobody else walks in your shoes. Just make sure your shoes are always moving forward!
Timothy Pina
#99. I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power? ... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'
John Travolta
#100. The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
John Ensign
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