Undoing Quotes

• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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• Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Habit

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• The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Difficult

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.639, Candlewick Press

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• Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

  Theodore Roethke

  Art, Mean, Haste

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.123, Copper Canyon Press

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• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

  Horace Mann

  Compassion, Helping Others, Help And Support

  "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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• I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Artist, May

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• Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

  Charles Schumer

  Rivers, Way, Path

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• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  Kate Smith

  Hockey, Ice Cream, Chocolate

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• We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

  Horace Mann

  "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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• The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Gay, Rights, Today

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226

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• Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

  Charles Rangel

  Past, Europe, Hemisphere

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• Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

  Moshe Sharett

  Tides, Return, Impossible

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• You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

  Bruce Willis

  Reality, Past, Repeats

  US Magazine. Issue 249,

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• The light that lies In woman's eyes.

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Eye, Light

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• We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

  Horace Mann

  Kindness, Missing, Existence

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• Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Torches

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

  Ted Dekker

  Ends

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.625, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Father, Son, Gun

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.68, Penguin Books India

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• They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

  Agatha Christie

  Clever, Cleverness

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Edition”, p.274, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A traffic policeman stops Sister Bridget for speeding. She pulls into the side of the road and winds down her window. The officer walks round and starts undoing his fly. "Oh dear," she says, "Not the breathalyser again."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Wind

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• It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Done, Life Is, Seems

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1878). “The Gates Ajar”

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• I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.

  Norma McCorvey

  Lying, Thinking, Law

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• We see President [Donald] Trump actually reclaiming the proper role of the executive, and undoing a lot of damage that was done to the economy through excessive executive action by President [Barack] Obama.

  Paul Ryan

  President, Damage, Roles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

  Daniel Webster

  Powerful, Men, People

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• Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

  William Bennett

  Needs, May, Too Much

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book by William Bennett, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1993.

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