Done quotes

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

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

“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

“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.” Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“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

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” Robert Anson Heinlein

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

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.” Mark Twain

“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

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.” Bruce Lee

“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

“Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.” Gore Vidal

“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.” Confucius

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

“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.” Andre Gide

“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.” Amelia Earhart

“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