Quotes on Done

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.

Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge