Top 100 Must Be Done Quotes
#1. While there are many things you can do to help a loved one in need, there are some things that must be done by the Lord.
Richard G. Scott
#2. Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
Jonathan Sacks
#3. Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.
Dawson Trotman
#4. Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
Henry Petroski
#5. Hard work and results should be recognized by others, but when they aren't, advocating for oneself becomes necessary. As discussed earlier, this must be done with great care. But it must be done.
Sheryl Sandberg
#6. For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.
W.S. Gilbert
#7. To face tomorrow with the thought of using the methods of yesterday is to envision life at a standstill. To keep ahead, each one of us, no matter what our task, must search for new and better methods-for even that which we now do well must be done better tomorrow.
James F. Bell, III
#8. If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
Dwight L. Moody
#9. Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.
Corey Aaron Burkes
#11. As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
Leonard Cohen
#12. If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#13. There are some things that must be done quickly or not at all. If someone asks you if you love them you cannot hesitate. There are some paths that must be taken at speed.
Mark Lawrence
#14. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
Robert Kennedy
#15. I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
Rebecca West
#16. If there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle in the affairs of men. Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done - who's to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#17. Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
Abraham Lincoln
#18. As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.
Andrew Sean Greer
#19. I have no problem with the security ... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
Aaron Brown
#20. But even in his dissatisfaction he could not quiet the feeling that time was like a flash flood, so full, so brimming with things that must be done at once, but running out all the same, leaving an emptiness, a dry ditch in its wake.
Bess Tefft
#21. Heroes don't have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#22. Life is all about moving forward, but sometimes it must be done in reverse.
Scott Martin
#23. Do not look around to discover other people's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads you, both the universal nature through which things happen to you, and your own nature through the acts which must be done by you.
Marcus Aurelius
#24. There are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done
Evan Meekins
#25. We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
Claus Von Stauffenberg
#26. I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.
Robert Kennedy
#27. When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.
Kofi Annan
#28. In our Army every soldier must care about his job. Often- if the duty seems menial or hum-drum- it is hard to cultivate this attitude. But it must be done. What you do in your job each day, you do for the Army.
William O. Wooldridge
#29. The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of re-education and re-generation that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.
Chinua Achebe
#30. Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.
Cardinal Richelieu
#31. Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.
William Ellery Channing
#32. Swis bank & banks like this must be done away with to put an end to plundering of poor nations. the account holders should be hanged.
David Self
#33. There's nothing left to contend against and nothing left that must be done, and there will never be anything that must be done ever again.
Jed McKenna
#34. In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help.
Nayantara Sahgal
#36. It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
J.K. Rowling
#38. If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!
Michele Bachmann
#39. I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which tells them exactly how, when, and where the work must be done, and so brings good fortune to the home forever.
Jan Morris
#40. I did not regard it as a moral issue, but as a medical issue. A minority of women will always want an abortion. Therefore it must be done properly.
Jennifer Worth
#41. It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.
St. Vincent
#43. The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey.
We can't isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in
Emi Iyalla
#44. I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
Penn Jillette
#45. There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
Alan Paton
#46. You can't discipline the whole country."
"Still," Moss said dreamily, "that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything.
Paul Bowles
#47. Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.
John Ruskin
#48. What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.
Martha Graham
#49. We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.
Frank Herbert
#50. If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
Charles Edward Merriam
#51. You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
John Le Carre
#52. Yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done?
Neale Donald Walsch
#53. We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
William Barclay
#55. More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
Alva Myrdal
#56. Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.
Robert M. Lindner
#57. I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people ... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.
Russell Means
#58. Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Robert Collier
#59. Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Henry Knox
#60. Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.
Bobby Knight
#61. I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#62. No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
Joe Slovo
#63. The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.
John Piper
#64. It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
Pliny The Elder
#66. There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions because we aren't addressing what must be done to change the current racial climate.
Roxane Gay
#67. Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
Bran Ferren
#68. Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them. All this must be done by his reason.
Murray Rothbard
#69. Mental aerobics must be done prior to the exam. Work your mental muscle. If smart nurses fail this exam it is usually from mental fatigue.
Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio
#70. Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.
Michelle Zink
#71. There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
Dorothy Parker
#72. When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
Eleanor Roosevelt
#74. Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.
Stonewall Jackson
#75. Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).
Richard L. Evans
#76. What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
David Hewson
#77. Give me the wisdom to know what must be done and the courage to do it.
George R R Martin
#78. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.
Rick Yancey
#79. For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
Bill Vaughan
#80. The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
Bertrand Russell
#81. One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.
Ramana Maharshi
#82. Malcolm: So me and mine gotta lay down and die ... So you can live in your better world?
Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there ... any more than there is for you. I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it. But it must be done.
Joss Whedon
#83. And if she had not come back to me ... if you had not come ... if I had known for sure that both of you were dead ... Then I would still have lived ... and done what must be done. So will you.
Diana Gabaldon
#84. [The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.
Jacques Barzun
#85. Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh
To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?
Thomas Hood
#86. when people settle their accounts, guilt is easy to find, and justice is the right to do whatever we think must be done, and therefore justice can be anything.
Mesa Selimovic
#87. There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart
#88. Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.
Patricia Hampl
#89. A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster
#90. To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
Simon Bolivar
#91. Time slips. Days pass. Years fade. Life ends. And what we came to do on earth must be done while there is time!
Milan Jed
#92. As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
Jeff Miller
#93. When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must be done so I can exist." The Man With the Green Suitcase
Dee Doanes
#94. Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
Philip Hammond
#95. You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge.
Sun Tzu
#96. He drew in a harsh breath before he whispered, "The love I have for you gives me breath and strength. you will always hold my heart. Let it give you the strength to dowhat must be done. For you will be my lady, forever.
Sasha Summers
#97. Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. "Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad."
"Where is she?"
"She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and ... she apologized to me. Something must be done.
J.D. Robb
#98. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#99. The truth of the matter is, these mundane tasks must be done. There is no getting around them. Almost everyone has to do a task on a daily basis that is less than fun. The key is to find pleasure in the task and to not wish you were doing something else while doing it.
Jennifer L. Scott
#100. What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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