Quotes About Action

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

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

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.