Going Quotes - Page 3

Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.

Therese of Lisieux

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

Margaret Widdemer

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.

Christina Rossetti

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in " and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.

Madame C. J. Walker

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J. H. Boetcker

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

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.

Now go take on the day!

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

Frederick B. Wilson

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

James A. Froude

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

Wendell Phillips

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

William Gilmore Simms

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.

Alfred

Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Florynce Kennedy

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Action is eloquence.

William Shakespeare

The shortest answer is doing.

English Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

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

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

The Independent

The most effective way to do it is to do it.

Toni Cade Bambara

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

We will not know unless we begin.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

Alexander Clark

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood however much you preach posture or agree unless you live it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

To always be intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.

To choose is also to begin.

Starhawk

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

Johann von Goethe

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Linda Blandford

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

Charles Kingsley

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

This one makes a net this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brendan Francis

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

Ernest Hemingway

The way to get ahead is to start now.

William Feather

Begin doing what you want to do now.

Marie Beynon Ray

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The first step is the hardest.

Anonymous

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Mary Heaton Vorse

Every beginning is hard.

Anonymous

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

Chinese Proverb

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