In doing we learn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To do, one must be doing. [ French Proverb ]
Doing nothing is doing ill. [ Proverb ]
The shortest answer is doing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Attend to what you are doing.
True happiness (if understood)
Consists alone in doing good. [ Thomson ]
And still be doing, never done. [ Butler ]
Learn the luxury of doing good. [ Goldsmith ]
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for every fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. [ Longfellow ]
Doing nothing with a deal of skill. [ Cowper ]
One never loses by doing good turns. [ Proverb ]
Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade. [ Cowper ]
Happy were men if they but understood
There is no safety but in doing good. [ John Fountain ]
The readinesse of doing doth express
No other but the doer's willingnesse. [ Herrick ]
By doing nothing, we learn to do ill. [ Proverb ]
From saying to doing is a long stride. [ Italian Proverb ]
We know that wealth well understood,
Hath frequent power of doing good;
Then fancy that the thing is done,
As if the power and will were one;
Thus oft the cheated crowd adore,
The thriving knaves that keep them poor. [ Gay ]
Overdoing is nothing doing to the purpose. [ Proverb ]
Lose no opportunity of doing a good action. [ Proverb ]
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering. [ Milton ]
Between saying and doing there's a long road. [ Proverb ]
Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world.
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [ William Shakespeare ]
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. [ Earl of Chesterfield ]
Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this -
Men prize the thing ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good. [ Rowe ]
Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good,
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours
Are barren in return. [ Rowe ]
Gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. [ Shakespeare ]
Living requires but little life; doing requires much. [ Joubert ]
In morals, as in art, saying is nothing, doing is all. [ Renan ]
A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong. [ Ecclus ]
Saying well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent. [ French Proverb ]
I have lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing. [ Grotius ]
We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. [ Desmahis ]
Liberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits. [ Law ]
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. [ Le Sage ]
All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having. [ Emerson ]
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Our time is very short, but the time of doing good is much shorter. [ Proverb ]
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. [ St. Augustine ]
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing. [ J. G. Holland ]
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule. [ Locke ]
There is as much greatness in owning a good turn, as in the doing of it. [ Proverb ]
No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing. [ Johnson ]
The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. [ L'Estrange ]
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. [ Haliburton ]
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well. [ Alexander the Great ]
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them. [ Alfieri ]
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than words, was simply doing good. [ Whittier ]
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? [ Chapin ]
Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It goeth about doing good. [ Nevins ]
They used to think they were doing God a favor to print His name in capital letters. [ Richter ]
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. [ Cicero ]
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. [ George MacDonald ]
True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. [ Humphreys ]
In general, those who have nothing to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. [ Lowell ]
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. [ George MacDonald ]
Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm, if thou art doing thy duty. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops, which give such a depth to the morning meadow. [ Emerson ]
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. [ Scott ]
The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. [ Voltaire ]
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. [ Alexander Pope ]
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill. [ Cicero ]
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree. [ Rutherford ]
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never. [ Ben. Franklin ]
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. [ Rochefoucauld ]
True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world. [ Rochefoucauld ]
He is just as truly running counter to God's will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong. [ W. R. Greg ]
Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not. [ Fenelon ]
Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time. [ Bobby Knight ]
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work. [ George MacDonald ]
A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good. [ Atterbury ]
Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves. [ H. Giles ]
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself: for every guilty person is his own hangman. [ Seneca ]
By cultivating the beautiful, we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers; by doing good, we foster those already belonging to humanity. [ Howard ]
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. [ La Bruyere ]
An honorable name or a good reputation is an excellent protection against wrong-doing: we fear to compromise it more through vanity than virtue.
Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. [ Drew ]
When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it. [ W. Gladden ]
True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way. [ Locke ]
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]
When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. [ Holmes ]
We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. [ John Eliot ]
We are too fond of our own will; we want to be doing what we fancy mighty things: but the great point is to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit. [ Cecil ]
Eccentricity is not a proof of genius, and even an artist should remember that originality consists not only in doing things differently, but also in doing things better.
[ Stedman ]
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. [ Pliny ]
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. [ Steele ]
The fact is, that to do anything in tbia world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]
Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. [ B. R. Haydon ]
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]
Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands. [ John Ruskin ]
An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it by social virtues, and by doing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. [ Duclos ]
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. [ Napoleon I ]
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]
It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]