Best Quotes About Done (Top 100)
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At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
Mother Teresa
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
Brennan Manning
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If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Walt Whitman
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...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,....
Langston Hughes
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
Banksy
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Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.
Bryan Stevenson
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More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
Glen Cook
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The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.
Chad Michael Murray
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Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.
Tony Evans
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The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri
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If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.
Angelina Jolie
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At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).
Denzel Washington
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had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.
Kenny Chesney
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
Sappho
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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
Erich Segal
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If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.
Anna Sewell
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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
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Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
Louis XIV
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How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
Amy Tan
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Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.
John Mayer
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Maxim Gorky
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So little done, so much to do..
Cecil Rhodes
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire
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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
Erich Segal
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people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives
Helen Prejean
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
David Lloyd George
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Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
Yvon Chouinard
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If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.
Loren Eiseley
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If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert
David Ben-Gurion
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Alfred North Whitehead
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There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.
Mario Puzo
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Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
Florence Nightingale
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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone
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I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.
Jan Karon
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I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
Raoul Wallenberg
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What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again
Anne Frank
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Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.
John Scott
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The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.
Robert Hughes
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
Jackie Robinson
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
Bernadette Devlin
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
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Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,— Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.
Sara Teasdale
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others
to want to do something you are convinced should be done
Vance Packard
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Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Joseph O'Connor
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
Faye Dunaway
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Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
James Fenton
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we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.
Tim LaHaye
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti
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When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
Alan Perlis
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I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
Peter Cook
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What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity
Anne Bradstreet
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Nihilism is best done by professionals.
Iggy Pop
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
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They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.
Lauren Bacall
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
Mitch Albom
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles
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Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!
George Clinton
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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!
Arthur C. Clarke
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In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).
Peter Thiel
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They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
Casey Stengel
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You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
Billy Wilder
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Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.
Ze Frank
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Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
Benjamin Zander
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No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
Bessie Smith
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Cotton Mather
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Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
Clifford Geertz
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
Quentin Crisp
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What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
Gerry Spence
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Edward Steichen
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After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.
Dorothy Rowe
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
Annie Proulx
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BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.
Jenny Holzer
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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Davy Crockett
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I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.
Elias Canetti
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Now that I've met you and spoken to you and felt you and tasted you, I'm done. That's it. You're the end for me.
Christine Warren
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
Bjork
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Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.
Anthony Doerr
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When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
Dennis Weaver
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As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
Leonard Cohen
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We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.
Gaylord Nelson
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A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
Benjamin Hooks
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Live while you live, then die and be done with.
John Gunther
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I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Henry Drummond
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
George Takei
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When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.
Greg Mortenson
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
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From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.
Henry Miller
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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
Anthony Kennedy
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What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.
Howard Pyle
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After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
Benny Goodman
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Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
John Wyndham
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Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
Frank A. Clark