Action

(56 votes)   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 Beyon Ray

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(55 votes)   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
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(55 votes)   Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(55 votes)   Just do it.

Nike Corporation
American Shoe Company

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(55 votes)   When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Veda Upanishads
c. BC 800-, Hindu Poetic Dialogues On Metaphysics

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(54 votes)   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

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(53 votes)   Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(53 votes)   If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Ramana Maharshi

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(53 votes)   Real action is in silent moments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(53 votes)   What you are will show in what you do.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(52 votes)   Act, don't react!

Source Unknown

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(52 votes)   Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Source Unknown

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(52 votes)   By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

ª Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-, British-born American Humorist [Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams (BRILLIANT THOUGHTS ®) are individually protected by international copyright, and appear here by special permission. All rights reserved. Visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com]

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(52 votes)   Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Carl Rowan
1925-, American Journalist, 'The man'

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(52 votes)   There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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