Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.
When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.
The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you." "Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.
If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.