Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Erma Bombeck

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Robert H. Schuller

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.
Mike Ditka

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn