Any action is better than no action…

By Nabil Medawar | Published: January 10, 2009
  • A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ~ John Galsworthy
  • A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. ~ Georges Clemenceau
  • A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 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
  • The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~ John Locke
  • Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon. ~ Barbara Sher
  • As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ~ English Proverb
  • Before you can do something you must first be something. ~ Goethe
  • Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake. ~ Marie Beynon Ray
  • Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ~ St. Jerome
  • Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. ~ Robert H. Schuller
  • Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes! Work never begun. ~ Christina Rossetti
  • Dance to the tune that is played. ~ Spanish Proverb
  • Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet. ~ Author Unknown
  • Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else. ~ Franklin D. Roosevel
  • Don’t be a spectator; don’t let life pass you by. ~ Lou Holtz
  • Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. ~ Horace
  • He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • He, who strikes first, strikes twice. ~ Mexican Proverb
  • I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. ~ Helen Keller
  • If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. ~ Socrates
  • It isn’t sufficient just to want — you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. ~ Richard D. Rosen
  • It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ~ George Eliot
  • Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet. ~ Author Unknown
  • Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries. ~ Sister Corita Kent
  • One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. ~ John Wanamaker
  • One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. ~ John Roger
  • People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~ Lewis Cass
  • Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. ~ David Letterman
  • The more you do, the more you are. ~ Angie Papadakis
  • The only way to start is to start. ~ Author Unknown
  • The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer. ~ Author Unknown
  • To begin, begin. ~ Peter Nivio Zarlenga
  • To know and to act are one and the same. ~ Japanese Proverb
  • What really matters is what you do with what you have. ~ Shirley Lord
  • What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • What you are will show in what you do. ~ Thomas A. Edison
  • Whatever you are trying to avoid won’t go away until you confront it. ~ Author Unknown
  • You will never win if you never begin. ~ Robert H. Schuller

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