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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 von Goethe
Before you can do something you must first be something.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel
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 Theresa
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
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What keeps me going is goals.
Muhammad Ali
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
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
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
However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Ma
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace
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.
