Getting Quotes - Page 2

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

The only menace is inertia.

Every beginning is hard.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

The test of any man lies in action.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

Men expect too much do too little.

Above all try something.

Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.

We will not know unless we begin.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

To always be intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.

Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin it should make you jump up and do something.