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Quote: In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. Author: Charles Francis Adams 1807-1886, American Statesman, Diplomat Quote: You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. Author: Leo Aikman Quote: The shortest distance between two points is under construction. Author: Noelie Alito Quote: The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place. Author: Louis A. Allen Quote: Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic Quote: Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic Quote: For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic Quote: A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Author: Maya Angelou 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer Quote: Effective action is always unjust. Author: Jean Anouilh 1910-1987, French Playwright Quote: Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. Author: John Anster Quote: Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. Author: St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian Quote: Action without a name, a ''who'' attached to it, is meaningless. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher Quote: What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher Quote: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Quote: For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Quote: Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Quote: We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Quote: Well begun is half done. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher Quote: The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. Author: Red Auerbach 1917-, American Basketball Coach Quote: Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher Quote: Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher Quote: Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher Quote: Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius 310-10395, Latin Poet, Man of Letters Quote: It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! '' Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman Quote: Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. Author: Honore De Balzac 1799-1850, French Novelist Quote: It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Author: Al Batt Quote: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Author: Sally Berger Quote: Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. Author: Henri L. Bergson 1859-1941, French Philosopher Quote: Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. Author: Annie Besant 1847-1933, British Theosophist Quote: Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata Quote: All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Quote: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Quote: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Quote: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Quote: You can't aim a duck to death. Author: Gael Boardman American Politician Quote: Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945, German Lutheran Pastor and Theologian Quote: The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Author: Jacob Bronowski 1908-1974, British Scientist, Author Quote: It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Author: Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855, British Novelist Quote: Let your performance do the thinking. Author: H. Jackson Brown Jr. American Author of ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' Series Quote: Take action in order to move toward your goals. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer Quote: You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer Quote: It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Author: Jean De La BruyFre 1645-1696, French Classical Writer Quote: Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Author: Warren Buffett 1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur Quote: Let us do or die. Author: Robert Burns 1759-1796, Scottish Poet Quote: The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Author: Nolan Bushnell American Businessman, Founder of Atari Computer Quote: Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. Author: Anne Byrhhe Quote: Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. Author: Eileen Caddy American Spiritual Writer Quote: A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. Author: Pedro Calder=n de la Barca 1600-1681, Spanish Playwright Quote: A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. Author: John Calvin 1509-1564, French Protestant Reformer Quote: Leap, and the net will appear. Author: Julie Cameron American Author of ''The Artist's Way'' Quote: Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. Author: Jack Canfield American Motivational Speaker, Author, Trainer Quote: Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author Quote: Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author Quote: Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author Quote: No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author Quote: Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author Quote: The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author Quote: As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. Author: Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist Quote: Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. Author: Alexis Carrel 1873-1944, French Biologist Quote: There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Author: Lewis Carroll 1832-1898, British Writer, Mathematician Quote: People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. Author: Lewis Cass Quote: Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet Quote: The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff. Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright Quote: Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman Quote: In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. Author: Rene Char Quote: I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author Quote: It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. Author: Ching Ning Chu Chinese-American Businesswoman, Lecturer, Author Quote: I never worry about action, but only inaction. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister Quote: We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician Quote: Action makes more fortune than caution. Author: Luc De Clapiers Quote: He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. Author: James Freeman Clarke 1810-1888, American Minister, Theologian Quote: A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe. Author: Georges Clemenceau 1841-1929, French Statesman Quote: When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. Author: Georges Clemenceau 1841-1929, French Statesman Quote: Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher Quote: Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher Quote: If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you. Author: Lanes Company Quote: The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher Quote: The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher Quote: Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia. Author: Russel H. Conwell 1843-1925, American Lawyer, Baptist Minister, Lecturer Quote: We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist Quote: Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. Author: Benedetto Croce 1866-1952, Italian Philosopher, Historian, Critic Quote: Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. Author: Joan L. Curcio Quote: The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path. Author: D'Alembert Quote: A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet Quote: For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet Quote: The secret of getting things done is to act! Author: Benjamin O. David General, US Army Quote: The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. Author: John Dewey 1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator Quote: We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. Author: John Dewey 1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator Quote: Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. Author: Dhammapada BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism Quote: If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. Author: Joe Dimaggio 1914-, American baseball player Quote: We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Author: Walt Disney 1901-1966, American Artist, Film Producer Quote: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister Quote: Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Author: Fyodor Dostoevski 1821-1881, Russian Novelist Quote: Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author Quote: Never mind your happiness; do your duty. Author: William J. Durant 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist Quote: Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer Quote: Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer Quote: What you are will show in what you do. Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE Quote: Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. Author: Edward Edwards Quote: All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist Quote: All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist Quote: But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist Quote: Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist Quote: We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist Quote: Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist Quote: It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist Quote: 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist Quote: We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. Author: Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, British Statesman Quote: A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Real action is in silent moments. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: The ancestor of every action is thought. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: There is a tendency for things to right themselves. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: We are always getting ready to live, but never living. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Author: Friedrich Engels 1820-1895, German Social Philosopher Quote: No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth. Author: Quintus Ennius Quote: Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Author: Richard L. Evans Quote: The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. Author: Evenus Ancient Greek Poet Quote: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Author: William Faulkner 1897-1962, American Novelist Quote: Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. Author: Johann G. Fichte 1762-1814, German Philosopher Quote: No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, American Minister Quote: It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer Quote: You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. Author: St. Francis De Sales 1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer Quote: Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat Quote: The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Author: Frederick (Carl) Frieseke 1874-1939, American-Born French Painter Quote: A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. Author: John Galsworthy 1867-1933, British Novelist, Playwright Quote: A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader Quote: Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader Quote: Action expresses priorities. Author: Charles A. Garfield American Peak Performance Expert, Researcher, Trainer Quote: Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Author: Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807-1882, Italian Patriot, Soldier Quote: Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. Author: Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970, French President during World War II Quote: Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. Author: Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970, French President during World War II Quote: You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. Author: Lou Gerstner American Business Excessive, Chairman of IBM Quote: A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. Author: Edward Gibbon 1737-1794, British Historian Quote: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Author: Andre Gide 1869-1951, French Author Quote: One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement. Author: John Gielgud Quote: Before you can do something you must first be something. Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: The deed is everything, the glory is naught. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: We will burn that bridge when we come to it. Author: Nick Gorski Quote: The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Author: Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer Quote: Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Author: Graffiti Quote: There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. Author: Martha Graham 1894-1991, American Dancer, Teacher, and Choreographer Quote: If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. Author: Antonio Gramsci 1891-1937, Italian Political Theorist Quote: Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Author: Heber J. Grant Quote: The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. Author: Dennis Green American Football Coach Quote: You have to make it happen. Author: Joe Greene Quote: For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds. Author: Robert Greene 1558?-1592, British Author Quote: In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. Author: Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N. Quote: Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. Author: Mark Victor Hansen American Motivational Speaker, Author Quote: A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. Author: Vaclav Havel 1936-, Czech Playwright, President Quote: The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist Quote: You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist Quote: Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Author: Heinrich Heine 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist Quote: Never confuse motion with action. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer Quote: Action is the real measure of intelligence. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' Quote: Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' Quote: Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' Quote: The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' Quote: Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher Quote: One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher Quote: The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher Quote: You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. Author: John H. Holcomb Quote: You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. Author: Marjorie Holmes Quote: I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet Quote: To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet Quote: Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach Quote: When all is said and done, more is said than done. Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach Quote: He has half the deed done who has made a beginning Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet Quote: He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet Quote: Don't think, just do. Author: Reiko Horton Quote: An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. Author: William Dean Howells 1837-1920, American Novelist, Critic Quote: Allow motion to equal emotion. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher Quote: Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher Quote: Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist Quote: The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Author: Francis Hutcheson Quote: The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Author: Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator Quote: Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler Quote: People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen. Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler Quote: So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler Quote: The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. Author: Lee Iacocca 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler Quote: How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. Author: Dean William R. Inge 1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London Quote: The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends. Author: Joseph Jacobs Quote: Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Quote: Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Quote: Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Quote: I will act as if what I do makes a difference. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Quote: If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Quote: Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. Author: St. Jerome c.342-420, Croatian Christian Ascetic, Scholar Quote: Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. Author: Immanuel Kant 1724-1804, German Philosopher Quote: My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Author: Clarence Buddinton Kelland Quote: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Author: Helen Keller 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist Quote: Now is the time for all good men to come to. Author: Walt Kelly 1913-1973, American Animator, Strip Cartoonist Quote: Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor Quote: It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. Author: Pir Vilayat Khan 1916-, Western Philosopher Teacher, Master, Author Quote: In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Author: Rabbi Harold S. Kushner Quote: Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer Quote: Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. Author: Michael Landon 1936-1991, American Actor, Director Quote: Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic Quote: He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic Quote: He who limps is still walking. Author: Stanislaw J. Lec 1909-, Polish Writer Quote: Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. Author: David Letterman 1947-, American TV Personality Quote: Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger. Author: Elmer G. Letterman Quote: You can't start at the top. Author: Samuel Levenson Quote: Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. Author: Peter Levi Quote: Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Author: James Levin American educator Quote: I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. Author: Harvey Spencer Lewis American Author of ''Mansions of the Soul'' Quote: The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist Quote: Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. Author: A. L. Linall Jr. 1947-, American Editor Quote: As our case is new, we must think and act anew. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA Quote: I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA Quote: One thought driven home is better than three left on base. Author: James Liter Quote: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. Author: John Locke 1632-1704, British Philosopher Quote: Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. Author: Haniel Long 1888-1956, American Author, Poet, Journalist Quote: Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet Quote: Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet Quote: What really matters is what you do with what you have. Author: Shirley Lord American Writer Quote: If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery. Author: John Lowenstein Quote: As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. Author: Lu Xun 1881-1936, Chinese Writer and Revolutionist Quote: Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. Author: George Macdonald 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist Quote: Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel, Author: Edgar F. Magnin Quote: If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you. Author: Ramana Maharshi Quote: Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. Author: Andre Malraux 1901-1976, French Statesman, Novelist Quote: Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics'' Quote: I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person. Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker Quote: Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance. Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker Quote: I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator Quote: Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine Quote: Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Author: Peter Marshall 1902-1949, American Presbyterian Clergyman Quote: The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to ''prime the pump'' and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day. Author: Robert J. Mckain Quote: We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects. Author: Herman Melville 1819-1891, American Author Quote: I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist Quote: Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. Author: A. A. Milne 1882-1956, British Born American Writer Quote: You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. Author: John N. Mitchell 1913-1988, American Lawyer, Cabinet Member Quote: You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. Author: John Pierpont Morgan 1837-1913, American Banker, Financier, Art Collector Quote: Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Author: Mother Teresa 1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary Quote: There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough. Author: Mother Teresa 1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary Quote: Let us be tried by our actions. Author: Motto Quote: It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. Author: Dr. Howard Murphy Quote: This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. Author: Siddha Nagarjuna c. 100-10200 AD, Indian/Tibetan Father of Mahayan Quote: Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman Quote: Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman Quote: He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher Quote: Just do it. Author: Nike Corporation American Shoe CompanyQuote: And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Author: Anais Nin 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer Quote: Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Author: Anais Nin 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer Quote: The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. Author: Anais Nin 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer Quote: Good things happen to those who hustle. Author: Chuck Noll American Football Coach Quote: Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet Quote: Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet Quote: The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it. Author: Mal Pancoast Quote: Act like you expect to get into the end zone. Author: Joe Paterno American Football Coach - Penn State Quote: Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author Quote: The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. Author: H. Ross Perot 1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS Quote: Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist Quote: Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the Author: Albert Pike 1809-1891, American Lawyer, Masonic Author, Historian Quote: We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. Author: Peace Pilgrim 1908-1981, American Peace Activist Quote: Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. Author: Arthur Pine American Publisher, Author Quote: A well begun is half ended. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher Quote: When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.'' Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer Quote: The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic Quote: Either move or be moved. Author: Colin Powell 1937-, American Army General Quote: The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Author: Pierre Joseph Proudhon 1809-1865, French Socialist, Political Theorist Quote: Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. Author: Proverb Quote: Try and trust will move mountains. Author: Proverb Quote: When deeds speak, words are nothing. Author: African Proverb Sayings of African Origin Quote: After all is said and done, more is said than done. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin Quote: From small beginnings come great things. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin Quote: Some will, some don't, so what! Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin Quote: The early bird gets the worm. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin Quote: Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Quote: I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Quote: Talk doesn't cook rice. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Quote: Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Quote: The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Quote: To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin Quote: Big words seldom accompany good deeds. Author: Danish Proverb Sayings of Danish Origin Quote: As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin Quote: If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin Quote: It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin Quote: God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin Quote: The greatest step is out the door. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin Quote: Act quickly, think slowly. Author: Greek Proverb Sayings of Greek Origin Quote: The dog that trots about finds a bone. Author: Gypsy Proverb Sayings of Gypsy Origin Quote: What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. Author: Ibo Proverb Sayings of Ibo Origin Quote: Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Author: Indian Proverb Sayings of Indian Origin Quote: The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs Author: Irish Proverb Sayings of Irish Origin Quote: Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin Quote: He who walks with the lame learns how to limp. Author: Latin Proverb Sayings of Latin Origin Quote: An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. Author: Mexican Proverb Sayings of Mexican Origin Quote: He who strikes first, strikes twice. Author: Mexican Proverb Sayings of Mexican Origin Quote: The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. Author: Francis Quarles 1592-1644, British Poet Quote: Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake. Author: Marie Beyon Ray Quote: If you want to get along, go along. Author: Sam Rayburn 1882-1961, American Representative Quote: Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. Author: Mary Caroline Richards Quote: Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. Author: Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825, German Novelist Quote: You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. Author: Pat Riley 1945, American Basketball Coach Quote: A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant Quote: Action is the foundational key to all success. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant Quote: In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant Quote: We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant Quote: You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant Quote: I didn't think; I experimented. Author: Wilhelm Roentgen Quote: One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. Author: John Roger American Author of ''Life 101'' Quote: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor Quote: The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher Quote: Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA Quote: When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA Quote: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA Quote: Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA Quote: It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. Author: Richard D. Rosen Quote: Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. Author: Percy Ross American Columnist Quote: Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. Author: Carl Rowan 1925-, American Journalist, 'The man' Quote: What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer Quote: The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Author: Carl Sandburg 1878-1967, American Poet Quote: All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher Quote: Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. Author: Saunders Quote: He who considers too much will perform little. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian Quote: Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Author: Helmut Schmidt Quote: In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher Quote: Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader Quote: I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader Quote: Winning starts with beginning. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader Quote: You will never win if you never begin. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader Quote: The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Author: Norman Schwarzkopf 1934-, American General of the Gulf War Quote: The view only changes for the lead dog. Author: Sergeant Preston of The Yukon Fictional 1950's TV Character Quote: Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. Author: Joaquin Setanti Quote: Action is eloquence. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: Be great in act, as you have been in thought. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon. Author: Barbara Sher American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was'' Quote: You don't have to get it right the first time. Author: Barbara Sher American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was'' Quote: Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust. Author: James Shirley 1596-1666, British Playwright Quote: The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author Quote: Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Author: Liz Smith 1923-, American Journalist, Gossip Columnist Quote: The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. Author: Sydney Smith 1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman Quote: Heaven never helps the men who will not act. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet Quote: Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. Author: Bishop Robert South 1634-1716, British Clergyman Quote: If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Author: Bishop Robert South 1634-1716, British Clergyman Quote: No one will do it for you. Author: Ben Stein American Professor, Writer Quote: It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist Quote: Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist Quote: The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist Quote: I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. Author: W. Clement Stone 1902-, American Businessman, Author Quote: So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. Author: W. Clement Stone 1902-, American Businessman, Author Quote: Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. Author: W. Clement Stone 1902-, American Businessman, Author Quote: Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set. Author: Leonidas of Tarentum Quote: I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Author: Russell C. Taylor Quote: Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something. Author: Inga Teekens Dutch Instructor and Counselor Quote: I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet Quote: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet Quote: Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Author: Richard Thalheimer American Business Executive, The Sharper Image Quote: I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist Quote: We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist Quote: We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Author: Frank Tibolt Quote: 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. Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher Quote: If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot. Author: Robert Townsend American Businessman, President of Avis Quote: The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain. Author: Thomas Traherne 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic Quote: It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. Author: Thomas Troward Quote: Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Author: Ted Turner 1938-, American Businessman, Founder of CNN Quote: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer Quote: Act, don't react! Author: Source Unknown Quote: Action is character. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often Author: Source Unknown Quote: Activity and sadness are incompatible. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Backbone beats wishbone every time. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Be both the gardener and the rose. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Do it now. Then it's done. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Don't look back, just keep on walking. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. Author: Source Unknown Quote: I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so. Author: Source Unknown Quote: If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up. Author: Source Unknown Quote: If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward. Author: Source Unknown Quote: It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting. Author: Source Unknown Quote: It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Logic will not change an emotion, but action will. Author: Source Unknown Quote: No rules for success will work if you don't. Author: Source Unknown Quote: None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen. Author: Source Unknown Quote: People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it. Author: Source Unknown Quote: The best way to get something done is to begin. Author: Source Unknown Quote: The only way to start is to start. Author: Source Unknown Quote: The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer Author: Source Unknown Quote: The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden. Author: Source Unknown Quote: The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started. Author: Source Unknown Quote: To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act? Author: Source Unknown Quote: Two-thirds of promotion is motion Author: Source Unknown Quote: What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does. Author: Source Unknown Quote: You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind. Author: Source Unknown Quote: As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action. Author: Veda Upanishads c. BC 800-, Hindu Poetic Dialogues On Metaphysics Quote: When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space Author: Veda Upanishads c. BC 800-, Hindu Poetic Dialogues On Metaphysics Quote: Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. Author: Vinet Quote: If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. Author: David Viscott American Author, Speaker, Trainer Quote: We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. Author: Swami Vivekananda Quote: What we need is to use what we have. Author: Basil S. Walsh Quote: One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. Author: John Wanamaker 1838-1922, American Merchant Quote: It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up. Author: Rita Warford Quote: Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful. Author: Wallace D. Wattles Quote: Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. Author: Daniel Webster 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman Quote: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Author: Bob Wells Quote: Actions lie louder than words. Author: Carolyn Wells 1870-1942, American Author Quote: In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. Author: Edwin P. Whipple 1819-1886, American Essayist Quote: It is better to rust out than wear out. Author: George Whitefield 1714-1970, British Methodist Evangelist Quote: Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them. Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher Quote: Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher Quote: Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. Author: John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author Quote: Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit Quote: No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit Quote: It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist Quote: Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet Quote: To begin, begin. Author: Peter Nivio Zarlenga American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Videos Quote: Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement. Author: Peter Nivio Zarlenga American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Videos Quote: You have to ''be'' before you can ''do,'' and do before you can ''have.'' Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker Quote: We will not know unless we begin. Author: Howard Zinn |
