Showing posts with label Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Action. Show all posts

Time Thief

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
--Edward Young

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Time for Action

“When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
--Andrew Jackson

Conscience is Felt

“Conscience is a felt state, it is an intuitive form of knowledge about the rightness or wrongness of an action.”
--Claire Fox

Rigidity's Result

“Rigidity in thought or action, almost guarantees failure in life.”
--Claire Fox

Action Alone

“Your authority is in action alone, and never in its fruits; motive should never be in the fruits of action, nor should you cling to inaction.”
--Krishna

Don't Ask, Do

“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”
--Jewish Proverb

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Threats to Freedom

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”
--George Orwell

Truth of Consequences

“Your fears of the consequences of a bold action are way out of proportion to reality, and in fact the consequences of timidity are worse.”
--Robert Greene

Call To Action

“Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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Vision in Action

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
--Japanese Proverb

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Always in Action

“The key to success is action and the essential in action is perseverance.”
--Sun Yat Sen

Destiny's Thought

“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
--Chinese Proverb

Success and Failure

“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”
--Alexander Graham Bell

Call to Action

“Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.”
--Billings Learned Hand

Doing Nothing

“Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.”
--Kevin Kwan

Ideas Need Action

“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”
--Arnold Glasow

Action Counts

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
--Irish Proverb

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Right Action

“Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.”
--Charlemagne

Being Busy

“Being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”
--Timothy Ferriss