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• What is once well done is done forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Inspiration, Forever

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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• 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 a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Winning

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Strength, Leadership, Guitar

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• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

  Marie Curie

  Positive, Inspiring, Moving On

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  Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Night, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Motivational, Want, Belief

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• There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Motivational, Women, Procrastination

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

  Tracy Hickman

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• Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Looks, Hungry, Given

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.103, Dell

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• He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

  Justin Cronin

  Sweet, Air, Care

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.666, Ballantine Books

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• You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

  Ernest Cline

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.

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• I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mistake, Too Late, Dare

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1619, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.

  David Brin

  Smart, Men, Thinking

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• I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Selfish, People

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.553, Penguin

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• Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Sacrifice, Joy

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

  John Green

  Lying, Baths, Policy

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.13, Penguin

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• The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Suffering, Triumph, March

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.955, Delphi Classics

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• It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

  Sue Miller

  Sight, Forgiving, Needs

  Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.211, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Lonely, Kindness, Love Is

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• There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson”, p.181, RosettaBooks

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• I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Greatness, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Mar 04, 2013

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• There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

  Eric Greitens

  Numbers, Definitions, Never Quit

  Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

  Charles Dickens

  Caring, Thinking, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.48

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• Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Heart, Unique, Realizing

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