action

141.

You have to make it happen.

- Greene, Joe

142.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

- Greene, Robert

143.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

144.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

- Hansen, Mark Victor

145.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

- Hasselhoff, David

146.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

- Havel, Vaclav

147.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

- Hazlitt, William

148.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

- Heine, Heinrich

149.

Many are called but few get up.

- Herford, Oliver

150.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

151.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

- Hill, Napoleon

152.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

- Hill, Napoleon

153.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

- Hill, Napoleon

154.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

155.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

156.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

- Holcomb, John H.

157.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

- Holmes, Marjorie

158.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

159.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

- Holtz, Lou

160.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

- Holtz, Lou