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Quotes About Action

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
~ Arnold H. Glasow
As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.
~ Marcus Sakey
He was drinking and contemplating his fear. It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed
~ Norman Mailer
It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed
~ Norman Mailer
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Basil King once said, "Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Tugas yang harus kita hadapi seringkali bukan pilihan kita, Tetapi kita bisa memilih bagaimana melaksanakannya. Kalau kita melakukannya dengan sungguh-sungguh, hasilnya akan memberi kepuasan pada hidup kita sehari-hari.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The man who is out doing something isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no wonder you're tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You don't have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
what you can do is often a matter of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
~ Norton Juster
but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
From 2:30 to 3:30 we put off for tomorrow what we could have done today.
~ Norton Juster
As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we'd never get nothing done." "You mean you'd never get anything done," corrected Milo. "We don't want to get anything done," snapped another angrily; "we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help.
~ Norton Juster
You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
~ Norton Juster