Getting Quotes - Page 4

To choose is also to begin.

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

If not careful... there is possibility getting spoiled.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

One of these days is none of these days.

When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

Now go take on the day!

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

Take decision each single time to ascertain that you are getting the best every time.

No age or time of life no position or circumstance has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.