Going Quotes - Page 4

I don't want to die. I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has, and I think society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me. That's the irony. What I'm talking about is going beyond retribution because there is no way in the world that killing me is going to restore those beautiful children to their parents and correct and soothe the pain.

Begin doing what you want to do now.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards they will be dissipated lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world or sunk in the slough of indolence.

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.

When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, hard work is the way to get results.

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

Talking is easy action difficult.

Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Of course,” the cabbie said, “you don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

Something must happen!

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

To do is to be.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

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.

Where are you going?” Wesley asked in a semi-sleepy voice.“Home.” I pulled on my jeans. “I’ve gotta take a shower and get ready for school.”He pushed himself up on one elbow to look at me. His hair was a mess, brown curls falling into his eyes and sticking up in the back. “You can shower here,” he offered. “I might even join you if you’re lucky.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

By his deeds we know a man.

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

The beginning is half of every action.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

To choose is also to begin.

13. If you’re going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

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.

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 your partner is regularly going out to bars and nightclubs and does not come home until after sunrise, it is likely that they are engaging in some form of infidelity.

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.

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.