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Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- 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

It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus

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I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel

Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied,
it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha

Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)

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.

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

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

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

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain

The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb

Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)

That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

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

When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter

I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

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

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

It is done to you as you believe.
- Ernest Holmes

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

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

Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson

I unconditionally forgive myself for everything
that I have ever done, said, or thought
that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)

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

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

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

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

I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart


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