Quotes by Authors - Page 170

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.
Charlton Ogburn
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Feather
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.
Bobby Murcer
Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
Barbara Sher
When it comes to getting things done we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett
Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.
James A. Worsham
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
W. D. Howells
I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.
Dorothy Uhnak
One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Anonymous
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
Margaret Halsey
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.
G.K. Chesterton
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
William Feather
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Above all try something.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.
Christina Rossetti
And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.
Margaret Widdemer
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
Therese of Lisieux
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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 F Kennedy
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake them up.
Anonymous
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte P. Gilman
Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
Edward L. Curtis
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry A. Hopf
This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Florynce Kennedy
Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.
Albert Camus
You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilson
Now go take on the day!
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker
Don't wait for your "ship to come in " and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla
To choose is also to begin.
Starhawk
We will not know unless we begin.
Howard Zinn
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
Rachel Carson
The most effective way to do it is to do it.
Toni Cade Bambara
Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.
Mrs. Herman Stanley
The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
Bruce Barton
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.
Anonymous
Every beginning is hard.
Anonymous
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Mary Heaton Vorse
The first step is the hardest.
Anonymous
It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.
David Spangler
Begin doing what you want to do now.
Marie Beynon Ray
The way to get ahead is to start now.
William Feather
As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.
Ernest Hemingway
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.
W.H. Auden
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
Hannah Moore
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards they will be dissipated lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Maria Edgeworth
To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
George Claude Lorimer