Top 100 To Be Done Quotes
#1. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.
Michael Monroe
#2. Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus.
Larry McMurtry
#3. Life keeps going. You think it'll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead.
Kristin Hannah
#4. Everything which has been done so far in human history has been able to be done because all were possible!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.
David Ortiz
#6. You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
Whoopi Goldberg
#7. I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.
Franklin Raines
#8. Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
John Dewey
#9. To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
Gerald R. Ford
#11. A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
James Cameron
#12. Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his ruin than his preservation.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#13. The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.
Christopher Paolini
#14. It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Arthur Helps
#15. Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.
Bede Griffiths
#16. So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.
Angela Merkel
#17. Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
Dorothy Height
#18. I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
Mary Roach
#20. I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.
Aleksandar Hemon
#21. It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.
Kenneth Eade
#22. Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.
Leopold Auer
#23. We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
Demosthenes
#24. Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#25. There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it's picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
Tony Abbott
#26. The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.
Janet Frame
#27. It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.
George Orwell
#28. Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections.
Paul Ryan
#29. We'll see if she can rise to the occasion, do what needs to be done."
"We'll see if she can manage not to kill her Liege and Master, especially if he continues talking about her like she's not in the room.
Chloe Neill
#30. God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love.
Nirmala Srivastava
#32. My goal was to get through the day as fast as possible. I worked fast because I wanted to be done. I wanted to be done because I wanted to go home to my nest and drink.
Augusten Burroughs
#33. Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
#34. When God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#35. P.s. In case you don't know what "Do what needs to be done" means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC
missive from Mat to Galad
Robert Jordan
#36. Look, sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done -Liam
Christopher Healy
#37. Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#38. Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato
#39. As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.
Pythagoras
#40. You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.
Adele Geras
#41. I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.
Eli Manning
#42. This next part is not going to be any fun, but it's like taking off a band-aid. It has to be done.
Kenneth Eade
#43. I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.
Rajon Rondo
#44. I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.
Don Hertzfeldt
#45. You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.
Sander Levin
#46. If it did suit everybody," said Ferguson, "it would not have to be done." Weinstein
Noel Loomis
#47. It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor.
Rhiannon Held Silver
#48. Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
Wole Soyinka
#49. Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.
Clayton Christensen
#50. I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#51. You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
Mike Jackson
#52. The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
Ten thousand years are not enough
When so much remains to be done
Jeet Thayil
#53. when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As
Mercedes Lackey
#54. I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.
Sanaa Lathan
#55. Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.
Pythagoras
#56. He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#57. So sometimes she wondered, in a distracted sort of way, where she was when she wasn't here, but mostly her needs were too sudden and pressing for any extended contemplation, and she simply fulfilled what needed to be fulfilled, did what needed to be done.
Stephen King
#58. I pretended to be done with love again, although deep down, I craved it. Craved intimacy with anyone, really.
Cindi Madsen
#59. No matter how much time we spent together, parts of my world would always be as alien to him as parts of his were to me. That was oddly comforting, and gave me the strength I needed to do what had to be done. "You?
Seanan McGuire
#60. Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.
Sue Patton Thoele
#61. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr Jr.
#62. As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
Gautama Buddha
#64. I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.
Chinua Achebe
#65. I thought of my dear late wife who relaxed me when things were stressful with the wonderful, simple words; "There is nothing to be done right now." {Drowndog}
Jon Edgell
#66. One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'
Tyra Banks
#67. You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.
Nick Hornby
#68. She believes that I love her!" cried the King. "What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?" "You know best," answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. "When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don't need advice from anyone else.
Andrew Lang
#69. You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.
Chuck Grassley
#70. Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
George Michael
#71. The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.
Carol Emshwiller
#72. Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
Bobby Knight
#73. The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#74. If it has to be done, a man - a real man - shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#75. There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.
Robert Hugh Benson
#76. We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.
Emmet Fox
#77. When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#78. As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.
Rosa Parks
#79. Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
Warren Rudman
#80. I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
John Abizaid
#81. I don't want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I'm not healed, but for this moment, I'm better.
Kerry Cohen
#82. It's not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it's something that's got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team.
Jon Gordon
#83. Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
Louise Rennison
#84. Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.
Lucan
#85. But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.
David Allen
#86. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
#88. One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.
Judy LaMarsh
#89. You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.
Erin Morgenstern
#90. When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
Bernard Arnault
#91. The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.
Patricia Wentworth
#93. As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
David Brainerd
#94. I'm a real stubborn person. I'm still humble, not too cocky, but I'm big headed. I know what I wanna do and I know how I wanna do it and I know what needs to be done.
Schoolboy Q
#95. This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.
Rajneesh
#96. Nothing to be done about it now, she thought. You can relive a moment again and again and again. But you can't change it. That's the tragedy of time. "See?
Barbara J. Taylor
#97. This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.
Ann Aguirre
#98. You are important enough to invest the time and energy needed for the change you want. Commit to becoming the person you wish to be and carve out the time for what needs to be done!
Peter Walsh
#99. After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said.
Gregory Maguire
#100. At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.
Philip Slater
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