Dorothy Day Quotes

Nothing will work unless you do.

You have to put in an effort in everything that you do, and you cannot just sit around expecting something to happen.

You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

Stop whining, start hustling.

There is no excuse for not trying.

No labor is hopeless.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

The best way to be, is to do.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Do and hope

Strive for extraordinary, don't moan, and sleep when you're dead.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.

In life, you're going to have things that are going to come up against you. You can either let it get to you, or you can make something happen.

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

Let us then, be up and doing.