Done Quotes - page 8

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. (William Temple)
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages. View quote
George Washington
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. View quote
Dale Carnegie
I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. View quote
Temple Grandin
Was there nought better than to enjoy No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due No forcing earth teach heaven's employ. View quote
Robert Browning
How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. View quote
Robert Browning
We shall march prospering,not thro' his presence Songs may inspirit us,not from his lyre Deeds will be done,while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire. View quote
Robert Browning
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point This can be done. View quote
Abraham Maslow
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. (Ernest Hemingway)
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? View quote
Amy Tan
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. View quote
George Santayana
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people! View quote
Frances Burney
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile. (Imelda Marcos)
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did. View quote
Mother Teresa
There is no greater calling than to serve your brother. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. View quote
Walter Reuther
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. View quote
Davy Crockett
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say "well done." View quote
John Ashcroft