#undone

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

— Confucius

#faced #lack #leave #right #shows

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#allowed #away #because #cheap #crew

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#delirium #ennui #itself #life #undone

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#currency #deed #deeds #deep #do

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#children #damage #damaged #done #ever

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#looking-back #punishments #remorse #undo-past-mistakes #undone

Even victors are by victories undone. ↗

— John Dryden

#undone #victories #victors

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

#count #cynic #determines #done #idealist

What's done can't be undone. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#undone

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#forgiven #only #sins #undone