Quotes About Action

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Something must happen!

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

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.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Delay not to seize the hour!

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.

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

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

The way to get ahead is to start now.