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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON ACTION 3
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Nick Gorski
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Graffiti
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.
Martha Graham (1894-1991, American dancer, teacher, and choreographer)
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.
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937, Italian political theorist)
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
Curtis Grant
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Heber J. Grant
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
Dennis Green (1949-, American football coach)
You have to make it happen.
Joe Greene
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Robert Greene (1558-1592, British author)
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the UN)
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.
Mark Victor Hansen (American motivational speaker, author) Author's website: www.markvictorhansen.com
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Haskins
If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck
David Hasslehoff
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.
Vaclav Havel (1936-, Czech playwright, president)
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Hegel (1770-1831, German philosopher)
Mark this well, you proud men of action! You are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856, German poet, journalist)
Never confuse motion with action.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
George Herbert (1593-1632, British metaphysical poet)
Many are called but few get up.
Oliver Herford (1863-1935, American author, illustrator)
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
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.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
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.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterwards.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
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.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
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.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989, American radical activist, author)
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
John H. Holcomb
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Marjorie Holmes
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Lou Holtz (1937-, American football coach)
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Doug Horton
Don't think, just do.
Reiko Horton
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
William Dean Howells (1837-1920, American novelist, critic)
Allow motion to equal emotion.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who are always getting ready to do something, and those who go ahead and do it.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American humorist, journalist)
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978, American Vice President)
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Francis Hutcheson
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca (1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler)
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.
Lee Iacocca (1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler)
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.
Lee Iacocca (1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler)
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca (1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler)
The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
Phil Jackson
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Joseph Jacobs
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
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.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
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.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
Act, and God will act.
Joan of Arc
Death is a door life opens.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... When you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan (1963-, American basketball player, actor)
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804, German philosopher)
Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla
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.
Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, amorist)
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Walt Kelly (1913-1973, American animator, cartoonist)
Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts -- spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect.... There was only one gift he held back-length of life.
Rose F. Kennedy
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Sister Corita Kent
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.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American engineer, inventor)
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.
Pir Vilayat Khan (1916-, Western philosopher teacher, master, author)
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
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.
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964, Indian nationalist, statesman)
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964, Indian nationalist, statesman)
How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
Bob Marley (1954-, Jamaican-born American musician, song writer)
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses, where each one can be put in a way to mean whatever person wants them to mean.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Our acts of betrayal are more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Victory is won not in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988, American Western author)
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.
Michael Landon (1936-1991, American actor, director)
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864, British poet, essayist)
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
He who limps is still walking.
Stanislaw J. Lec (1909-1966, Polish writer)
A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.
Cool Runnings Movie
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
David Letterman (1947-, American TV personality)
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
Elmer G. Letterman
You can't start at the top.
Samuel Levenson
Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
Peter Levi
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
James Levin (American educator)
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