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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- 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
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
There is nothing either good or 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
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- 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
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- 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
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
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
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
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
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
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.
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
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
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
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
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
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
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 one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
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
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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