Inspirations

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

- Louis A Allen

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Maya Angelou

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

- John Anster

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

- Hannah Arendt

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

- Aristotle

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

- Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

- Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

- Aristotle

Well begun is half done.

- Aristotle

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

- Marcus Aurelius

Begin, to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

- Decimus Magnus Ausonius

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

- Al Batt

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Sally Berger

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

- Henri L Bergson

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

- Matthew 7:12, Bible

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

- James 1:22, Bible

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.

- Matthew 7:12, Bible

You can't aim a duck to death.

- Gael Boardman

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Jacob Bronowski

Let your performance do the thinking.

- H Jackson Brown Junior

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Les Brown

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

- Les Brown

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

- Jean De La Bruy�re

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

- Nolan Bushnell

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

- Anne Byrhhe

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

- John Calvin

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Julie Cameron

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

- Jack Canfield

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

- Thomas Carlyle

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

- Thomas Carlyle

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

- Thomas Carlyle

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

- Andrew Carnegie

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

- Lewis Cass

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

- Miguel De Cervantes

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

- Ching Ning Chu

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Winston Churchill

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

- Marcus T Cicero

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Luc De Clapiers

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

- James Freeman Clarke

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

- Robert Collier

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

- Robert Collier

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

- Lanes Company

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

- Confucius

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

- Confucius

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

- Russel H Conwell

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

- Benedetto Croce

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

- Joan L Curcio

The secret of getting things done is to act!

- Benjamin O David

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

- John Dewey

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

- John Dewey

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

- Dhammapada

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

- Joe Dimaggio

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

- Walt Disney

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

- Wayne Dyer

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

- Wayne Dyer

What you are will show in what you do.

- Thomas A Edison

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

- Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- George Eliot

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

- George Eliot

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ancestor of every action is thought.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

- Friedrich Engels

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

- Richard L Evans

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

- Evenus

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- William Faulkner

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

- Johann G Fichte

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

- Anatole France

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

- Saint Francis De Sales

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.

- Charles A Garfield

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

- Giuseppe Garibaldi

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

- Edward Gibbon

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Andre Gide

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

- Heber J Grant

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

- Dennis Green

You have to make it happen.

- Joe Greene

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

- Mark Victor Hansen

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

- William Hazlitt

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

- William Hazlitt

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Napoleon Hill

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

- Napoleon Hill

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.

- Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

- Napoleon Hill

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

- John H Holcomb

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

- Marjorie Holmes

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

- Lou Holtz

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

- Horace

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning

- Horace

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

- William Dean Howells

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

- Thomas H Huxley

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

- Lee Iacocca

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.

- Lee Iacocca

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

- Lee Iacocca

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

- William James

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

- William James

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Saint Jerome

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Buddinton Kelland

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

- Helen Keller

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles F Kettering

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

- Pir Vilayat Khan

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

- Rabbi Harold S Kushner

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

- Michael Landon

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who limps is still walking.

- Stanislaw J Lec

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

- Elmer G Letterman

You can't start at the top.

- Samuel Levenson

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

- James Levin

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

- Harvey Spencer Lewis

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

- Georg C Lichtenberg

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

- Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

- James Liter

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

- John Locke

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- Shirley Lord

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

- Lu Xun

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has 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

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

- Og Mandino

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

- Horace Mann

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

- Peter Marshall

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true, action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump, and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

- Robert J Mckain

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

- Herman Melville

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

- A A Milne

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

- John Pierpont Morgan

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

- Mother Teresa

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

- Mother Teresa

Let us be tried by our actions.

- Motto

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

- Doctor Howard Murphy

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Just do it.

- Nike Corporation

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Chuck Noll

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

- Ovid

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

- Mal Pancoast

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Joe Paterno

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

- Norman Vincent Peale

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

- H Ross Perot

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

- Peace Pilgrim

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''

- Plutarch

Either move or be moved.

- Colin Powell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

- Pierre Joseph Proudhon

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

- Proverb

Try and trust will move mountains.

- Proverb

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

- African Proverb

From small beginnings come great things.

- American Proverb

The early bird gets the worm.

- American Proverb

To talk goodness is not good, only to do it is.

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

Talk doesn't cook rice.

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Danish Proverb

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

- English Proverb

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

- English Proverb

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- French Proverb

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

- Indian Proverb

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Latin Proverb

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

- Mexican Proverb

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

- Mexican Proverb

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.

- Marie Beyon Ray

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

- Jean Paul Richter

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

- Pat Riley

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

- Anthony Robbins

Action is the foundational key to all success.

- Anthony Robbins

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

- Anthony Robbins

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

- Anthony Robbins

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

- Anthony Robbins

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

- John Roger

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

- Jim Rohn

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

- Richard D Rosen

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

- Percy Ross

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

- Carl Sandburg

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

- Helmut Schmidt

Winning starts with beginning.

- Robert H Schuller

You will never win if you never begin.

- Robert H Schuller

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

- Robert H Schuller

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

- Robert H Schuller

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

You don't have to get it right the first time.

- Barbara Sher

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Liz Smith

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

- Sydney Smith

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sophocles

No one will do it for you.

- Ben Stein

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

- W Clement Stone

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

- W Clement Stone

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

- Russell C Taylor

Have a bias toward action, let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

- Richard Thalheimer

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

- Frank Tibolt

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

- Robert Townsend

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

- Thomas Traherne

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

- Thomas Troward

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Ted Turner

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. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

The best way to get something done is to begin.

- Source Unknown

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

- Source Unknown

No rules for success will work if you don't.

- Source Unknown

To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act?

- Source Unknown

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

- Source Unknown

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

- Source Unknown

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

- Source Unknown

The only way to start is to start.

- Source Unknown

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

- Source Unknown

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

- Source Unknown

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

- Source Unknown

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

- Source Unknown

Two-thirds of promotion is motion.

- Source Unknown

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

- Source Unknown

Action is character.

- Source Unknown

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

- Source Unknown

Act, don't react!

- Source Unknown

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

- Source Unknown

Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often

- Source Unknown

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

- Source Unknown

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

- Source Unknown

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

- Source Unknown

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

- Source Unknown

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

- Source Unknown

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

- Source Unknown

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

- Source Unknown

Do it now. Then it's done.

- Source Unknown

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

- David Viscott

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

- Swami Vivekananda

What we need is to use what we have.

- Basil S Walsh

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

- John Wanamaker

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

- Wallace D Wattles

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

- William Wordsworth

To begin, begin.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

- Zig Ziglar

We will not know unless we begin.

- Howard Zinn

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

- Confucius

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

- Norman Cousins

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

- Trammell Crow

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

- Benjamin Franklin

Many are called but few get up.

- Oliver Herford

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

- Jinx Milea

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last, but eat you he will.

- Ronald Reagan

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

- Source Unknown

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Inspirational Quotations Addressing the "Willpower" Component of Hope

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Well begun is half done.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Begin, to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

What you are will show in what you do.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.