It’s a shame to sit idle without doing some good deed.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
If your brother wrongs you, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is your brother.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
“What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
The soul's joy lies in doing.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.