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Quotes About Action

Indecision becomes decision with time.
~ Author Unknown
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."
~ Dodinsky
You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.
~ Author Unknown
Laziness is not a handicap — park somewhere else!
~ Author Unknown
People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.
~ Author Unknown
You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't make excuses — make good!
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1909
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
~ Yiddish Proverb
You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.
~ Hap Holmstead
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
~ Proverb
It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get...
~ Rudyard Kipling, "The Lesson"
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.
~ Author Unknown
The things you want to do are all up to you— Excuses are sabotage.
~ Terri Guillemets, 2002
Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel.
~ Author Unknown
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
~ Proverb
When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.
~ Edward F. Croker
The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.
~ Author Unknown
"Carpe diem" does not mean "fish of the day."
~ Author Unknown
Friday — superhero of the workweek!
~ Internet meme
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
~ T. E. Lawrence
Visualize your long-term goals to paint your short-term actions on the canvas of now.
~ Terri Guillemets
It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.
~ Author Unknown
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
~ Yiddish Proverb
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
~ Author Unknown