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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Reason

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.222

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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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• The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Love, Magic, Bones

  Song: Race Among The Ruins, Album: Summertime Dream

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• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  Earl Warren

  Birthday, Children, Heart

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Past, Gmos, Guilty

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.59, Routledge

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• Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

  Max Beerbohm

  Done, Given, Should

  Mainly on the Air "From Bloomsbury to Baywater" (1946)

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• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Sin, Forgiven

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• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Anger, Irritation

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• Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Delirium Tremens, Delirium, Ennui

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Work, Sleep

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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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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• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Grief, Unhappy Person

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• I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White, People

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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