What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
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
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
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
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
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.
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
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)
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
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
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
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
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
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
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- 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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
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