A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action fear courage apprehension optimism the best defense is a good offense independence freedom liberty strength bravery self-confidence proactive action control self-determination

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
C. H. Spurgeon The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
J. M. Power The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: dream action

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
Judy Grahn The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: action purpose

The winds of grace are always blowing for that it is you that must raise your sails.
Rabindranath Tagore Living in Balance: A Dynamic Approach for Creating Harmony & Wholeness in a Chaotic World
Categories: effort action

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesite to see what will put it right again.
Will Rogers Words for All Occasions
Categories: criticism action

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: action wellness wish

He does much who loves much.
Thomas a Kempis The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action love

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred Whitefield The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action leadership

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
J.M. Barrie The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: courage action

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action leadership

Do not wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities.
Janet Erskine Stuart Leadership: A Treasury of Great Quotations for Those Who Aspire to Lead
Categories: action leadership success

Saying is one thing, and doing is another.
Montaigne Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: words action integrity

Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: action results goals

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success failure action

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: work action effort just do it

Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.
Frank Tyger Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort action

The shortest answer is doing.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: response reaction action

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.
George Eliot Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: tranquility action stress

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: opportunity action vision

Postpone not a good action.
Irish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: time action procrastination

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: speech action character

I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action responsibility service

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: action work life

To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: opportunity living action

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Julia Cameron The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Categories: faith action courage

The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase Words for All Occasions
Categories: failure mistakes action

All of us are confused and ambivalent at times. We don't know the answer to a problem or we are faced with conflicting answers. Instead of giving up, instead of drowning in doubt, soul growth requires that we forge ahead, that we continue to ask questions and look for answers -- all the while having faith that everything is unfolding in the right manner.
John Gray Handbook for the Soul
Categories: doubt faith action

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Geri Weitzman The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action service leadership

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.
Sam Keen The Spirit of Loving
Categories: loving action commitment

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.``

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: action safety success

To know and not do is not yet to know.
Zen saying Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: action faith works

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action effort work

Better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action service volunteerism

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: love friendship action

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin Words for All Occasions
Categories: action work effort change

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: perfectionism reality action expectations

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort results

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
David Mahoney Leadership: A Treasury of Great Quotations for Those Who Aspire to Lead
Categories: action decision-making decisions

Stop worrying about whether or not you're effective. Worry about what is possible for you to do, which is always greater than you imagine.
Archbishop Oscar Romero The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: capacity achievement worry action

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.
Martina Navratilova Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action work effort results

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers Words for All Occasions
Categories: action work effort procrastination

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: success action determination work

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doers of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the least knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: criticism action courage excellence

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage action virtue respect

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: vision goals priorities action

Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: intention action word failure

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
Christine Collange Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: wisdom talent vision action

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
Samuel Rogers The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action effort work success

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Shirley Lord Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action responsility self-esteem success

Abundance is from activity.
Turkish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: success work effort action

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action work effort laziness

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: talent action opportunity truth

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action activism time opportunity

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action thought goals success

Good actions enoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action works effort character

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt American Quotations
Categories: action effort success work

Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Julia Cameron The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Categories: anger action understanding self-awareness

One must be something in order to do something.
Goethe The Permanent Goethe edited, selected, and with an introduction by Thomas Mann
Categories: action self-awareness purpose meaning

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese proverb The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action caution courage faith

I've realized that it's easiest just to sit down and start doing what you want to do, rather than sitting around thinking about it... You've got to let go of your second-guessing -- of that voice that makes you question what you're doing. You don't have time to listen to it.
Dan Hurley "Speed Writer" by Anna Muoio, Fast Company, May 2000
Categories: creativity confidence boldness action

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T. S. Eliot Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: today now present work action

It is what you do with your life that counts.
Martin Luther King Jr. The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: meaning purpose fulfillment action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action meaning purpose service

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: fear courage strength action

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
Peter Drucker The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action difficulties problems adversity

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt American Quotations
Categories: action effort work success

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Karen Horney, Self-Analysis, 1942 American Quotations
Categories: action emotions concern worry

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: wishing action effort character

We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!
John Eliot The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort success

It's not boasting when you deliver.
Richard Saunders (aka Doug Hall) Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: success capability talk action

How hard you try is rooted to how often you try.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: work effort success action

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Betty Reese The Prayer of Jabez Devotional
Categories: persistance action dedication determination

Each action can be the one on which all depends; what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what hd been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment.'
Martin Buber Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: action focus balance priorities

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Words for All Occasions
Categories: action effort success achievement

Personal leadership is not a singular experience.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: vision values action leadership

The human race is divided into two classes--those who go ahead and do something and those who sit still and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. Words for All Occasions
Categories: action success criticism critics

The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all -- doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin Words for All Occasions
Categories: action failure mistakes inaction

Begun is half done.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: beginning action effort work

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Giuseppe Garibaldi The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: help volunteer effort work action

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: problems difficulties challenges action

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca The Artist's Way
Categories: risk fear action procrastination

...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: focus action life joy journey

We are very near to greatness; one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success courage faith action

You don't have to get it right the first time.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: failure mistakes action success

The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: grief despair pain action

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: creation planning creativity action

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: action reputation failure success

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: opportunity action luck willingness

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard Power Quotes
Categories: success integrity knowledge action

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: obstacles circumstance action determination

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: obstacles success failure action

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action patience opportunity self-confidence

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life action success work

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage strength character action

Leap, and the net will appear.
Julie Cameron The Artist's Way
Categories: action risk self-confidence faith

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage strength fear action

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action life safety courage

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action work effort character

The thought is not the act.
Joan Ebbitt Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: self-control action behavior thoughts

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship action love relationships

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action life intentions thoughts

Passion, thought a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: passion desire self-control inspiration action

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life living action goal balance

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action...
William Shakespeare The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: risk daring discretion action speech

You will give yourself relief if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action meaning fulfillment priorities passion

We learn by doing.
Aristotle Words for All Occasions
Categories: action work effort learning education

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make us good. (Nicomachean Ethics. VI, 13,I)
Aristotle Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: virtue knowledge action goodness work

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osler Words for All Occasions
Categories: knowledge action work effort success

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: silence meditation self-knowledge self-examination action

Whatever you do, you need courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life action character courage fear

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.
SueEllen Fried Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: success failure sin mistake action effort

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort action speech words

Procrastination and worry are the twin thieves that will try to rob you of your brilliance-but even the smallest action will drive them from your camp.
Gil Atkinson The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action procrastination worry despair stress

Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action practice skill ability talent

Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: action success achievement determination perseverance

Don't make excuses--make good.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: blame responsibility excuses action behavior

Procrastination results in apathy, discouragement, and depression, whenever we turn our backs on what we know we need to do, we turn against our higher self. We forego the power to do something positive, to turn the situation around, or open new doors. At times we all want to think about problems tomorrow, but we lose sleep unnecessarily because we forfeit facing the truth. Our inability to confront the heart of the matter causes anxiety.
Alexandra Stoddard Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: procrastination put off action worry fear pessimism

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: vision mission goal determination action

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus H. Curtis Franklin Dayplanner, November 21, 1993
Categories: creativity initiative success achievement action

The golden rule of life is, make a
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action start goal vision planning

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
Horace Mann The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thoughts action service ministry actions

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action knowledge work effort success

We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.
H. Emilie Cady Lessons in Truth
Categories: truth life choices responsibility action

Then end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
Philip Sydney The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: knowledge action effort ministry service

The chiefest action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
John Webster The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action purpose meaning fulfillment work

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action adventure risk change growth

We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.
Woodrow Wilson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action questions problem-solving innovation

If there is no wind, row.
Latin proverb The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action effort success achievement work

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness!
George Jacques Danton Power Quotes
Categories: courage bravery action vision leadership

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Moroccan proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: effort work action character appearances

They tell us, sir," continued Mr. Henry, "that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger. Will it be the next week or the next year?...Shall we gain strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.
Patrick Henry, from Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry by William Wirt Our Sacred Honor
Categories: courage strength bravery action effort

Action without reflection can easily become barren and bitter.
Jim Wallis The Soul of Politics: Discovering a Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change
Categories: action motives meditation purpose meaning

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.
Grace Ogot The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: action difficulties problems strength adversity

Everything must have a beginning.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: start action work effort beginner

Warning: Authorities warn that "try" is a dangerous expression that has enormous power to influence your behavior. It's toxic. Use it very carefully. When "try" creeps into your language or into your thoughts, pluck it out quickly.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: speech try behavior thought attitude action

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
May V. Smith Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: success work effort action achievement

There is no Fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
Herbert N. Casson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort success failure

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action happiness mood attitude depression

It's not an idea unless you're willing to take action on it.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: idea work effort action success

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: work effort action success achievement

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: excellence habit education virtue action

The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
Hindustani proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: love action kindness perspective motive

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action desire work effort success

Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only.
James 1:22 Holy Bible
Categories: memory action wisdom knowledge character

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: self-esteem achievement action success self-doubt

Oh how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base, uncomely things it makes men do.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: fear action emotion failure mistakes

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to live is wisdom.``       
William A. Ward Cokesbury catalog
Categories: memory action wisdom knowledge character

The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: wellness speech thought behavior action

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare (The Two Gentlemen from Verona) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: love friendship relationships agape action

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: priorities balance planning focus action

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Sequichie Comingdeer A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: fear action self-control courage character

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Kennedy A Mind Like His: Developing the Character of Christ
Categories: action service commitment integrity honesty

Good words do not last long until they amount to something.
Chief Joseph A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: words action speech success integrity

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: choice responsibility vision planning action

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Henry David Thoreau Power Quotes
Categories: wisdom leadership integrity character action

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil Words for All Occasions
Categories: ability self-confidence belief faith action

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere. Life is not intellectual and critical, but sturdy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thought philosophy living work action

Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay United Features Syndicate column, printed 3/22/98 in the Arizona Republic.
Categories: action creativity opportunity work ideas

They brag most that can do the least.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action talk boasting braggart insecurity

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ideas action work dreams success

Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: goals planning action success achievement

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: abilities vision mission opportunity action

Talk doesn't cook rice.
Chinese proverb The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action effort work success achievement

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: vision mission action planning responsibility

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: learn education action knowlege ability

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: friendship trust relationship love action

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
Maxwell Maltz The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action courage success achievement failure

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: attitude commitment positive enthusiasm action

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.
Socrates The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: motivation change effort work action decision

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: faith love belief hope opportunity action

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Fraces E. Willard The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: action purpose meaning fulfillment service work

We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: self-esteem confidence attitude action behavior success

Do the thing and you will be given the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: action effort work commitment success achievement

In all labor there is profit.
King Solomon Proverbs 14:23, Holy Bible
Categories: work effort action success job vocation career

We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action.
Johann Zimmerman The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thought action purpose meaning fulfillment life

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work opportunity action privilege attitude achievement

The absence of change is worse than inaction, it is atrophy.
Carolyn Warner Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: change action stagnation growth self-improvement flexibility

The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action truth life character honesty integrity

Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as to by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run--in the long run, I say!--success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Categories: success goal happiness action purpose meaning

The deed is everything, the glory naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort action success achievement recognition

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.
Thomas Robert Gaines The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort action results success achievement

Every noble activity makes room for itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort opportunity planning priorities

...the Law of Stress-Hardinesss...states that stress is not only to be expected but preferred...we can and should develop an positive, workable approach to stress management...Think of it. The perfect no-stress environment is the grave...When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: stress attitude life power action wellness

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to lose.
Richard Saunders (aka Doug Hall) Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: success risk bravery courage strength action

We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness purpose meaning fulfillment mission action

Ideas not coupled with action never
Arnold H. Glasow Words for All Occasions
Categories: ideas action effort success work achievement

To do is to be.
Socrates The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action effort work meaning fulfillment purpose

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: obstacles circumstances fear ignorance reality action

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Thomas Aquinas The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort action meaning purpose fulfillment

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: joy living present future fulfillment happiness action

Action is worry's worst enemy.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action worry anxiety depression attitude stress

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Thomas Carlyle Words for All Occasions
Categories: purpose success action work effort meaning

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action laziness failure success work effort

Dare to believe in miracles. Look beyond the mud on the windshield, beyond the impossible, and know life is more than anguish and stress. Reach out to someone, when your heart is too heavy to feel the sunlight or to taste the rain. Rid yourself of dark thought and melancholy. Open your mind to fresh air, to the unlimited music in your soul.
Joyce Sequichie Hifler A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: hope optimism positive thinking service action

Our problem is not lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing.
Mark Hatfield Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort action knowledge success failure

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action understanding wisdom knowledge effort success

A bold attempt is half success.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: courage bravery effort success achievement trying action

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Mary Martin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action work effort goal vision planning

Love is a verb.
Clare Boothe Luce Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: love action relationships friendships giving sharing

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: success potential work effort achievement action

The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: change relationships action life structure transitions

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: work effort action success focus perspective

Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind.
Yiddish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: proverb advice thought action self-confidence decision

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
Henry James The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life live happiness action fulfillment success

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: community volunteerism emotions feeling action change

The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
Slogan of the US Armed Forces The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action self-confidence work effort positive thinking optimism just do it

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Franklin Day Planner, 1994 November
Categories: thought words speech action work effort success

He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort thought vision success leadership

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life opportunity vision good action happiness success

The aged in council, the young in action.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age aging elder elderly advise counsel action youth

He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: effort action opportunity work procrastination wisdom success

Expressing your enthusiasms can add years of creative life to your time on earth.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: life aging fulfillment enthusiasm vision talents action

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced course of action your should take--choose the bolder.
W.J. Slim The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action boldness courage vision mission success achievement

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: action rewards life living volunteer good honors

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: progress action hope assurance growth change self-improvement

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work selfishness sharing action love justice character

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
General Omar Bradley The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action decision leadership courage determination circumstances procrastination

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work goal success achievement mistakes effort

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: work effort determination success failure vision action

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: love family parents children action home relationships

Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment--the most priceless of human treasures--are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen--who make *good* things happen--in the world around them.
Joe Klock Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: success happiness peace fulfillment treasure action giving doing

Act honestly, and answer boldly.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action risk safety daring character integrity truth

As you combine commitment, awareness, inhibition, and appropriately positive visualization, you are awakening and literally re-creating your own brain.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: commitment goal action determination thought mental processes

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do and bark.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: pride coward courage laziness complain action character

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes 5:12
Categories: work effort action rest relaxation wellness health

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
William James The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: action work effort happiness joy fulfillment purpose meaning

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.``

True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: hope life difficulties problems circumstances adversity action

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: strength work ability courage action belief self-confidence

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: prayer religion belief faith hope spirituality action

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J.H. Boetcker The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort will desire leadership success achievement

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character gossip self-esteem action speech responsibility integrity

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William Burnham The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: fear depression worry anxiety action work effort

He had the deed half done, who has made a beginning.
Horace Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: change action beginning effort goal progress success

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Henry Ford Words for All Occasions
Categories: action work effort leadership track record past

Happiness walks on busy feet.
Kitte Turmell The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness purpose meaning fulfillment work action mission

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
Queen Margreth II of Denmark Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: destiny control action work effort invovlement self-determination

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: goals objectives success happiness action planning priorities

One of the big differences between the nonachiever and the achiever is that the latter has mastered the art of applying the obvious.
Allan Cox Words for All Occasions
Categories: success failure procrastination action work effort ability

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan Words for All Occasions
Categories: wise talent ability character work effort action

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors: competence (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity (your identity, your character, your attitude).
Peter Koestenbaum "Do you have the will to lead?" by Polly LaBarre, Fast Company, March 2000
Categories: leadership meditation authenticity character action results success

This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time life appreciation purpose meaning opportunity action

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Robert Half Words for All Occasions
Categories: action thought work effort success creativity imagination

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.
Fran Tarkenton Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: perfectionism success willingness action obstacles fear failure

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: goal vision mission progress growth action priorities thought

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action desire goal vision mission planning responsibility success

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Gandhi Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: action effort change society volunteerism grass roots organizations

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work talents skills ability giving sharing volunteerism action

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability opportunity talent skill action desire motivation attitude

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Christian Boyee The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort sadness depression busy emotions feelings

A thought that does not result in action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: planning vision work effort achievement success thought action

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thought action work effort planning vision achievement success

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal.
Mary Beard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action planning vision leadership effort work achievement success

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: life challenges difficulties obstacles problems focus perspective action

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: words action speech meaning understanding relationships friendship love

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action thought vision planning mission goal success failure

The longer I live, the more deeply convinced that what makes the difference between one man and another, the great and the insignificant, is energy, that invincible determination, a purpose that once formed nothing can take away. The energetic quality will do anything that is meant by God to be done in this world, and no talent, training, opportunity, or circumstance will make any man without it.
Sir Thomas Buxton Words for All Occasions
Categories: energy enthusiasm success achievement goals work effort action

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort action success procrastination achievement planning chunking

Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: talk words speech action effort work success leadership

Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs.
Brian Aldiss, from Barefoot in the Head The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: violence anger hatred bigotry speech action war fight self-control

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: dreams plans vision mission leadership action effort work

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: direction vision mision goal action work effort success

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.
Krishnamurti The Spirit of Loving
Categories: love action life meaning understanding relationships marriage friendship

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
Lin Yutang The Importance of Living
Categories: belief faith religion action ministry service work fruits

The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: future work effort present goal vision mission action

Now is the time.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: work action effort vision risk bravery courage strength

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: courage risk daring action virtue success progress growth

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: dream action effort boldness daring risk power goal

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing so futile.
Bertrand Russell Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: commitment decision-making wishy-washy procrastination put off failure action

One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."
Margaret Thatcher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action goal growth ability talent achievement success perservere

Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: safety caution risk daring courage happiness life joy action

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
King Solomon Ecclesiastes 9:11
Categories: persevere determination stick to it work effort success desire action

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: kindness compassion friendship relationship courtesy action feeling emotion

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action volunteerism work effort change community giving sharing leadership

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Billie Jean King Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: mistakes failure courage bravery action effort daring dare boldness

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Sallust The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meaning purpose fulfillment service ministry volunteerism work career action

Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
John Burroughs Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness work effort action service ministry meaning purpose fulfillment joy

We cannot safely leave politics to politicians, or political economy to college professors. The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.
Henry George Power Quotes
Categories: society community action money power stewardship fiscal responsibility politics

Doing is significantly different than not doing. Dong not only "gets things done," it teaches lessons you cannot possibly learn theoretically and can loosen even the most stubbornly entrenched feelings.
Carol Lloyd Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: work effort action success achievement learning growth emotions self-improvement

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual things which have already taken place.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: present future past time self-confidence self-awareness action opportunity change

This is a world of action, and nor for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort success whining complaining making excuses rationalization

Safe is all right for the brain dead; safe means they can't screw it up. It also means they can't be great.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: risk courage bravery strength safety success mistakes vision action

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action inaction sympathy death condolences service ministry failure mistake

Think "impossible" and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned , and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words "It's possible," and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest. I believe we are all potentially brilliant and creative--but only if we believe it, only if we have an attitude of positive expectancy toward our ideas, and only if we act on them.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Categories: dreams projects impossible wellness resources creativity attitude ideas action

'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. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: time dreams goals action circumstances life living fulfillment procrastination

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind... Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in in one swift and sweeping act of achievement... But you can do it gradually--day by day and play by play--if you want to do it, if you will do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.
William E. Holler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success achievement goal work effort action persistence perseverence determination

Boldness is the fruit of hope.
Phillipine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action boldness hope vision success achievement risk courage daring

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
Pearl S. buck Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: proactive moods self-determination action success accomplishments growth work effort

Advising is easier than helping.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: proverb advise advice help serve giving sharing assist usefulness words action

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: intentions action success aspiration growth goal vision mission effort work

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: life problems obstacles challenges difficulties discipline will action character growth change

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes out, so it comes clear in. In business, sometimes, prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard Light from Many Lamps
Categories: genius effort action failure success patience achievement perseverance defeat purpose

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Admiral Collingwood The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: achievement vision leadership goal dream work effort success action history determination

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: responsibility action work effort integrity character honesty success achievement mission goals

The Checklist of Change``
1. Take your time.``
2. Arrange temporary structures.``
3. Don't act for the sake of action.``
4. Recognize why you are uncomfortable.``
5. Take care of yourself in little ways.``
6. Explore the other side of change.``
7. Get someone to talk to.``
8. Find out what is waiting in the wings of your life.``
9. Use this transition as the impetus to a new kind of learning.``
10.Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: patience structure change transition action self-care self-nurture exploration support self-awareness learning

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Phillip James Bailey The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging time gratitude attitude value action work effort life meaning fulfillment purpose

If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity.
Loretta Staples Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: goals goal setting vision mission planning success achievement outcome action work effort

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: sorrow sadness despair depression attitude emotions feelings action work meaning purpose fulfillment

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
James Freeman Clarke The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work effort action purpose meaning fulfillment sharing giving service serving volunteers volunteering

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous Huxley The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: self-confidence vision mission belief determination persevere action success achievement work effort commitment

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: determination perseverance work effort action desire success goal planning support vision mission

Do not waste worry. If you're going to worry, worry well. Put that energy to good use; aim it at an answer. Don't forget: Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
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...what I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it.
W. Mitchell Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?
Jane Austen Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
Robert Schuller Franklin Day Planner, July 2, 1993
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Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worth cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt Bits & Pieces magazine
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power that resides in him is new in Nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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It is not uncommon to find oneself thinking such thoughts as "I can't stand this" or "If only I didn't have to do this." As the psychologist Albert Ellis notes, such thoughts frequently involve whining. In essence, we are acting like babies and whining about things "not being fair." One can continue to do this if one choose, say Ellis. However, it is usually more efficient to simply accept the fact that life is not always a bowl of cherries, stop whining, and get on with the task.
John D. Bransford and Barry S. Stein The Ideal Problem Solver
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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Growth of the soul is our goal, and
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Honore de Balzac Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations...can never effect reform.
Susan B. Anthony Treasury of Women's Quotations
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...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine Power Quotes
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There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
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There are many find things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life...significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.
Grenville Kleiser Light from Many Lamps
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