Quotes About Action

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Now or never was the time.

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking, on the other hand, makes progress from one place to another. ... The problem of life is to change worry into thinking, and anxiety into creative action.

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.

I think with my right hand.

It was said by one hon. Gentleman last night that it was of no use crying over spilt milk, and certainly the observation was a just one so far as regarded the milk already spilt. But if by crying one could prevent other milk from being spilt in future, then the crying might be a very useful process.

Dust does not lift without wind.

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Action, indeed... is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Talk doesn't cook rice.