Quotes of Unfinished - somelinesforyou

“ Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do. ”

- Kenko Yoshida

“ But if We have such another victory, we are undone. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade. ”

- Gay Hendricks

“ Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. ”

- Pyrrhus

“ What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ What's done can't be undone. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. ”

- Unknown

“ No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. ”

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Gao Xingjian

“ We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ Labor with what zeal we will,Something still remains undone,Something uncompleted stillWaits the rising of the sun. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. ”

- Marlene Dietrich

“ One more such victory and we are undone. ”

- Unknown

“ One more such victory and we are undone. ”

- Pyrrhus

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

- Elizabeth Fry

“ Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone. ”

- Plutarch

“ Even victors are by victories undone. ”

- John Dryden

“ If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. ”

- Chögyam Trungpa

“ A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? ”

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“ At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. ”

- Golda Meir

“ Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes! Work never begun. ”

- Christina Rossetti

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

- Pablo Picasso

“ There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. ”

- Carson McCullers

“ Two things rob people of their peace of mind: work unfinished and work not yet begun. ”

- Unknown

“ At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself. ”

- Benny Carter

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

- Lady Stella Reading

“ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ”

- Bette Howland
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