action

321.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

- Smith, Sydney

322.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sophocles

323.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

- South, Bishop Robert

324.

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

325.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

326.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

327.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

- Stone, W. Clement

328.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

- Stone, W. Clement

329.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

330.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

- Tarentum, Leonidas of

331.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

- Taylor, Russell C.

332.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

- Teekens, Inga

333.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

- Thalheimer, Richard

334.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

- Thoreau, Henry David

335.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

336.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

- Townsend, Robert

337.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

- Traherne, Thomas

338.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

- Troward, Thomas

339.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

340.

Act, don't react!