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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
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Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- 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
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
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- 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
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- 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
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
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
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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.
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
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)
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
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
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
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
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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