What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain 
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
A man is relieved and gay when he has
put his heart into his work and done his best;
but what he has said or done otherwise
shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
So confident am I in the intentions,
as well as wisdom, of the government,
that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done,
either cannot, or ought not to be done.
- Thomas Jefferson
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
It is done to you as you believe.
- Ernest Holmes
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I unconditionally forgive myself for everything
that I have ever done, said, or thought
that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Stop holding on to the past.
Release your regrets about whatever you may have done
or failed to do that turned out poorly.
Forgive others for whatever they may have done
or failed to do that cause you harm.
Declare today to be a new beginning.
Let go of the past and move on with creating
a joyful new future for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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