The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Voltaire

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Earl Nightingale

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
Marcus Garvey

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
George Burns

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James Madison

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James Madison

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot