Quotes About Action

Procrastination is paralysis by fear, not astute planning. If you regularly have difficulty making decisions, look below the surface to identify your fears, and address them. Until you do, you'll be spending a lot of nights with the frogs.

Please don't waste your time and the prospect's time telling them what the product IS. Tell them what it can DO and why it will do it for them.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A poet stated it more succinctly when he wrote, "I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed." Interestingly enough, you will discover that when you read this book a second time, you will get more thoughts and more ideas than you did the first time. This is especially true if you read a few minutes every day before you start your day's activities and just before you go to sleep.

Emotion makes the prospects take action now, and logic enables them to justify the purchase later.

Dac? trebuie s? ne motiv?m noi înÈ™ine, trebuie s? înfrunt?m, cu onestitate, adevaratele motive pentru care facem lucrurile pe care le facem.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. But a vision and a task are the hope of the world.

What you sow you reap. What you give

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.

If there is hope in the future, then there is power in the present."—JOHN MAXWELL

It's not what you know; it's what you use that makes a difference."—ZIG ZIGLAR

Don't be an 'if' thinker, be a 'how' thinker

being a winner is much different from having the potential to win. Everyone has the potential; it's what you do with that potential that really matters.

To be a hero, you have to learn to be a deviant, because you're always going against the conformity of the group. Heroes are ordinary people whose social actions are extraordinary. Who act.

Happiness is not what we have but what we do with it.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Words are never "only words"; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!"

By the time events reach the stage where you have to stand and fight, you have to be fully prepared to put everything you've got into it and not hold anything back. You might only get one chance.

Strah muškarce parališe, a žene pokre?e.

Life's got a habit of slipping through your fingers, slippery as an eel, and leaving you with nothing. Maybe if we're offered a chance at something good, we should grab it while we can

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