Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

17.

The only way to start is to start.

18.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

21.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

22.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

23.

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

24.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

25.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

27.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

28.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

33.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

37.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

40.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

41.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

42.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

43.

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

Heine, Heinrich

44.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

45.

Do it now. Then it's done.

46.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

47.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

48.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

49.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

50.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.