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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Action Quotes


Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.            

By: Chinese proverb


I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

By:  Chinese proverb


Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
By: Annonymous


Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.
By: Jiddu Krishnamurti


Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
By: Sydney J. Harris


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.
By: Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer


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.
By: Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.


Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
By: Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.


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


A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. 
By: Arabian Proverb


An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
By: Arnold Glasow

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
By: Brendan Francis


Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 
By: Peter Marshall


Never mistake motion for action.
By: Ernest Hemingway


Action is eloquence.
By: William Shakespeare


A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
By: Washington Irving


Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
By: Oscar Wilde


Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
By: Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997


Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.  You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.
By: Author Unknown


If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
By: Charles Barkley


Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
By: Edmund Burke


Talk doesn't cook rice.
By: Chinese Proverb


Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
By: Baltasar Gracian


All know the way; few actually walk it. 
By: Bodhidharma


Contemplation often makes life miserable.  We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
By: Nicolas de Chamfort


The first step binds one to the second.
By: French Proverb


I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. 
By: G.K. Chesterton


If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. 
By: Henry J. Kaiser


There is no moment like the present.  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.
By: Maria Edgeworth


Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
By: Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960


Action is the antidote to despair.
By: Joan Baez


Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.
By: Grey Livingston


If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.
By: William James (1842-1910) American philosopher and psychologist.


Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the USA.


When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the USA

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