When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
Lao Tzu

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
Mike Ditka

What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther

If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman

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

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy Graham

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

If a man has done his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach