Going Quotes

Of course,” the cabbie said, “you don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going.

Emily St. John Mandel

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Phil Linz

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

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

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

Francis Quarles

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

By his deeds we know a man.

African proverb

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

Constantine Nash

What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

Dorothy L. Sayers

To do is to be.

Socrates

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Liz Smith

To be is to do.

Plato

The way to do is to be.

Lao Tzu

The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.

Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.

Edgar Watson Howe

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

Sir Walter Scott

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez

Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

Performance releases pressure.

Anonymous

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.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

No age or time of life no position or circumstance has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

Anonymous

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

English Proverb

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

And now Lord what wait I for?

Bible

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

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Charles M. Schwab

One of these days is none of these days.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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

Liz Smith

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalier

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

Jacob K. Javits

It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar

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

It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.

Joyce Carol Oates

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Feather

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

Wendell Phillips

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

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

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Charles Sanders Peirce

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

Chinese Proverb

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Eva Young

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