done quotes

“Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.”

— Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”

“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.”

“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.”

— Woody Allen

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“One never notices what has been done. One can only see what remains to be done.”

— Marie Curie

“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

“Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”

— Chet Atkins

“Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.”

— Chet Atkins

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

— Jane Austen

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.”

“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”

— Dale Carnegie

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”

“Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“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

“ He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. ”

“The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. ”

“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. ”

— Coco Chanel

“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”

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