Quotes about doing
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“The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.”

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Thinking

“I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

Moving On, Past, Hurt

“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude

Help, Soul, Solitude, Life

“There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

People, Books, Music, Flowers

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Love, People

“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blood Noir

Source: Blood Noir

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”

Lloyd Alexander book The Black Cauldron

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book III: The Castle of Llyr (1966), Chapter 1
Source: The Black Cauldron

Time

“So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.”

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

Thinking, Change

“Brother,” Artemis chided. “You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Help

“You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.”

Kinky Friedman (1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician

Hell, Fish, Dead

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Silence

“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”

Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Boy, Reading

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”

John O'Hara (1905–1970) American journalist

Forward http://books.google.com/books?id=pksdAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+work+to+do+and+I+am+afraid+not+to+do+it%22&pg=PAvii#v=onepage to The Horse Knows the Way (1964).

“We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Truth

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Fear, Way, Time

“Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?”

Mark Millar Kick-Ass

Source: Kick-Ass

People

“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.”

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

Change

“The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

Past

“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Light, Water, Forgetting

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Art

“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.”

Anne Tyler Ladder of Years

Source: Ladder of Years

“If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by,
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Smile, Time, Summer, Flying

“Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?'

Uh… you know. Pretty good.'

Have you said the L-Word yet?'

The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?'
Uh… No. The other L-Word.'

?'

Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

Love

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Dead

“This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Age, Problem

“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

People, Stupidity, Time, Night

“You come back and you do it right now," Morgead bellowed in her ears and in her mind. "Right now! Do you hear me?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.”

Waylon Jennings (1937–2002) American country music singer, songwriter, and musician

Way

“Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

World, Feeling, Time, Parting

“Holding anger is a poison… It eats you from inside… We think that by hating someone we hurt them… But hatred is a curved blade… and the harm we do to others… we also do to ourselves.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Variant: Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Hate, Thinking, Hurt, Anger

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Standing by Words: Essays (2011), Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms (1982)
Context: It may be, then, that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Way, Singing