Quotes about Undone

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. Votes: 7

What's done can't be undone. Votes: 6

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. Votes: 6

Even victors are by victories undone. Votes: 6

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. Votes: 6

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. Votes: 6

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone. Votes: 6

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Votes: 6

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Votes: 6

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do. Votes: 4

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone. Votes: 4

When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders. Votes: 4

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. Votes: 4

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. Votes: 4

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone. Votes: 4

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone. Votes: 4

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. Votes: 2

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. Votes: 2

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people. Votes: 2

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing. Votes: 2

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it. Votes: 2

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone. Votes: 2

God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first? Votes: 2

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. Votes: 2

The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish. Votes: 2

What's done cannot be undone. Votes: 0

Most things remain undone. Glorious future! Votes: 0

Everything can be undone, including success. Votes: 0

Without work men are utterly undone Votes: 0

Whatever can be done, can be undone. Votes: 0

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. Votes: 0

What is done can never be undone. Votes: 0

Leaving is an act that cannot be undone. Votes: 0

One more such victory and we are undone. Votes: 0

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone. Votes: 0

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. Votes: 0

With every word unspoken each moment comes undone. Votes: 0

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. Votes: 0

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone. Votes: 0

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain Votes: 0

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure. Votes: 0

...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone... Votes: 0

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone. Votes: 0

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves. Votes: 0

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] Votes: 0

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone. Votes: 0

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ. Votes: 0

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite Votes: 0

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. Votes: 0

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. Votes: 0

Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together. Votes: 0

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. Votes: 0

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again Votes: 0

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. Votes: 0

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth? Votes: 0

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. Votes: 0

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. Votes: 0

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. Votes: 0

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world. Votes: 0

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. Votes: 0

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. Votes: 0

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. Votes: 0

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again. Votes: 0

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone. Votes: 0

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. Votes: 0

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done. Votes: 0

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. Votes: 0

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success. Votes: 0

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. Votes: 0

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. Votes: 0

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Votes: 0

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone. Votes: 0

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten. Votes: 0

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. Votes: 0

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something Votes: 0

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun. Votes: 0

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Votes: 0

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." Votes: 0

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone. Votes: 0

Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small. Votes: 0

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles. Votes: 0

I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him. Votes: 0

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world. Votes: 0

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. Votes: 0

What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise~? Votes: 0

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one. Votes: 0

Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone! Votes: 0

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. Votes: 0

You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone. Votes: 0

Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss. Votes: 0

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. Votes: 0

We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it. Votes: 0

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished. Votes: 0

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress. Votes: 0

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do. Votes: 0

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. Votes: 0

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. Votes: 0

True leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone! Votes: 0

And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone. Votes: 0

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted. Votes: 0

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one. Votes: 0

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked. Votes: 0

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone. Votes: 0

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself. Votes: 0

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? Votes: 0

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss. Votes: 0

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid. Votes: 0

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone. Votes: 0

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all. Votes: 0

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother. Votes: 0

Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone? Votes: 0

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.] Votes: 0

Don't cry over the shots you've missed; weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone! Votes: 0

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone. Votes: 0

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. Votes: 0

I like to keep my curiosity alive and question everything, and because I hate leaving something undone once I start it, I think far into the future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches Votes: 0

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A little deed done very well is better than a mighty plan kept on paper, undone. Wishes don't change the world; it's actions that do this business! Votes: 0

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand. Votes: 0

What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone. Votes: 0

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. Votes: 0

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun. Votes: 0

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. Votes: 0

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent. Votes: 0

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost Votes: 0

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. Votes: 0

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life. Votes: 0

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. Votes: 0

One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error. Votes: 0

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots Votes: 0

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music. Votes: 0

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead! Votes: 0

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down. Votes: 0

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone Votes: 0

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Votes: 0

Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them! Votes: 0

If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone. Votes: 0

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone. Votes: 0

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry! Votes: 0

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not. Votes: 0

The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be. Votes: 0

I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning. Votes: 0

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned. Votes: 0

I want to be undone by you. I want to be the one to come to pieces in your arms, to forget there is anything in this world but the two of us. Votes: 0

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too! Votes: 0

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out. Votes: 0

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now. Votes: 0

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out. Votes: 0

When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone! Votes: 0

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. Votes: 0

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done. Votes: 0

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one. Votes: 0

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether. Votes: 0

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. Votes: 0

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow. Votes: 0

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone. Votes: 0

Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone. Votes: 0