Undone Quotes

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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  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

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• What's done can't be undone.

  William Shakespeare

  Done

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [74]

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• Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

  Ahmad Shamloo

  Secret Love, Silence, Deeds

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• Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

  Elvis Costello

  Relationship, Mind, Mouths

  Song: Accidents Will Happen, Album: Armed Forces, 1979

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• An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Running

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Helping Others

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• Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Omission, Done

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

  William James

  Fate, Evil, Spinning

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Regret, Light, Giving

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• When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

  Tori Amos

  Mother

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• Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

  Yoshida Kenko

  "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.

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• Even victors are by victories undone.

  John Dryden

  Victory

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 164

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• People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

  Wally Lamb

  People, Waste, Scared

  Wally Lamb (2011). “She's Come Undone”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

  Elizabeth Fry

  God, Religious, May

  Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Katharine Fry, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.307

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• All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

  Wally Lamb

  Knives, World, Shade

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

  Jack Abbott

  Night, Subjectivity, Ghost

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

  Wally Lamb

  Sweet, Love Is, Breathing

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

  Ryan Lochte

  Motivational, Fun, Athlete

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• Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

  David Carradine

  Scare, Would Be, Way

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• In love, one and one are one.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Love, Inspirational, True Love

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• If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

  Audrey Meadows

  Mother, Stupid, Flower

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