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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
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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
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- 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
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- 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
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
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
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- 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
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
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
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
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
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
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 is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
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
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 always got.
- Mark Twain
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
It is done to you as you believe.
- Ernest Holmes
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
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
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stop holding on to the past.
Release your regrets about whatever you may have done
or failed to do that turned out poorly.
Forgive others for whatever they may have done
or failed to do that cause you harm.
Declare today to be a new beginning.
Let go of the past and move on with creating
a joyful new future for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
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
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