action

381.

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

382.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

- Wanamaker, John

383.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

- Warford, Rita

384.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

- Watson, Thomas J.

385.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

- Wattles, Wallace D.

386.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

- Whitefield, George

387.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

388.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

389.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

390.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

- Wilde, Oscar

391.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

- Wilde, Oscar

392.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

- Woolf, Virginia

393.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

- Wordsworth, William

394.

To begin, begin.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

395.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

396.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

- Zedong, Mao

397.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

- Ziglar, Zig

398.

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

399.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions—what we do—that we are happy or the reverse. . . . All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

- Aristotle

400.

Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be greater than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

- Aristotle