256 quotes found
“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.”
“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.”
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.”
“What you theoretically know vividly realize.”
“We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.”
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
“Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.”
“He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.”
“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.”
“"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.”
“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.”
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.”
“He who hesitates is last.”
“No age or time of life no position or circumstance has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!”
“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 s...”
“And now Lord what wait I for?”
“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.”
