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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON ACTION 6
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002, American businessman, author, founder of Combined Insurance Companies)
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002, American businessman, author, founder of Combined Insurance Companies)
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.
Leonidas of Tarentum
Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time.
Ida Scott Taylor
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Russell C. Taylor
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.
Inga Teekens (Dutch instructor and counselor)
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
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.
Richard Thalheimer (American business executive, the Sharper Image)
All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Matthew 7:12
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: James 1:22
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Matthew 7:120
Excellence is not being the best; it is doing your best.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Job 8:7
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.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt
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.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
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.
Robert Townsend (1920-, American businessman, president of Avis)
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.
Thomas Traherne (1636-1674, British clergyman, poet, mystic)
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Troward
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
Agnes Turnbull
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Ted Turner (1938-, American businessman, founder of CNN)
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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.
Author Unknown
Act, don't react!
Author Unknown
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often
Author Unknown
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Author Unknown
Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.
Author Unknown
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
Author Unknown
An unfailing success plan: at each day's end, write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and DO them. No planning will work unless we take action.
Author Unknown
Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.
Author Unknown
Backbone beats wishbone every time.
Author Unknown
Be both the gardener and the rose.
Author Unknown
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 Unknown
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.
Author Unknown
Do extraordinary things; don't just dream them.
Author Unknown
Do it now. Then it's done.
Author Unknown
Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.
Author Unknown
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Author Unknown
Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.
Author Unknown
Don't look back, just keep on walking.
Author Unknown
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
Author Unknown
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
Author Unknown
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Author Unknown
Ideas are a dime a dozen, they are worthless; but people who put their ideas into action are priceless.
Author Unknown
If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.
Author Unknown
If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.
Author Unknown
It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.
Author Unknown
It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.
Author Unknown
It is the man who has done nothing that says nothing can be done.
Author Unknown
It is the man who is waiting for his ship to come in that is always missing the boat.
Author Unknown
It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.
Author Unknown
Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.
Author Unknown
Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.
Author Unknown
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again, tomorrow.
Author Unknown
No rules for success will work if you don't.
Author Unknown
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Author Unknown
People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.
Author Unknown
Remember, if you want a different result, do something different.
Author Unknown
Some people are benevolent; others are beneficent. The first are well-wishing; the second are well-doing.
Author Unknown
Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.
Author Unknown
Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
Author Unknown
Successful folks don't just entertain thoughts -- they put them to work.
Author Unknown
Take up one idea and act on it. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea and leave all other ideas alone. This is the way to success.
Author Unknown
The best way to get something done is to begin.
Author Unknown
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
The man who succeeds is the one who seizes the moment.
Author Unknown
The one thing worse than a not quitter is the person who is afraid to begin.
Author Unknown
The only way to start is to start.
Author Unknown
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 Unknown
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 Unknown
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 Unknown
Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, hastened, or retarded.
Author Unknown
To choose is also to begin.
Author Unknown
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 Unknown
Try and trust will move mountains.
Author Unknown
Two-thirds of promotion is motion.
Author Unknown
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 Unknown
Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.
Author Unknown
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.
Veda Upanishads (c. BC 800-, Hindu poetic dialogues on metaphysics)
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
Veda Upanishads (c. BC 800-, Hindu poetic dialogues on metaphysics)
The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.
Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
Because they had a vision, a desire, and they took action.
Thomas J. Vilord
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott (1938-, American author, speaker, trainer)
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.
Swami Vivekananda
What we need is to use what we have.
Basil S. Walsh
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.
Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956, American businessman, founder of IBM)
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
John Wanamaker (1838-1922, American merchant)
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Wallace D. Wattles
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.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852, American lawyer, statesman)
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering, one wants something else.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells (1870-1942, American author)
It doesn't matter what you are thinking, or what fear you have, if you just do it! Action is the only thing that matters... I can see that at the end of my life, I am not going to look back and say, "I wish I had taken more action".
Diana von Welanetz Wentworth
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Edwin P. Whipple (1819-1886, American essayist)
It is better to rust out than wear out.
George Whitefield (1714-1970, British Methodist evangelist)
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947, British mathematician, philosopher)
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947, British mathematician, philosopher)
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892, American poet, reformer, author)
And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.
Margaret Widdemer
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Robin Williams (1952-, American actor, comedian)
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
Jonathan Winters
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
Victoria Claffin Woodhull
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
To begin, begin.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga (American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos)
Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga (American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos)
You have to "be" before you can "do," and do before you can "have."
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
We will not know unless we begin.
Howard Zinn
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