Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.
~ Charlton Ogburn
He who hesitates is last.
~ Mae West
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
~ William Feather
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.
~ Bobby Murcer
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.
~ Lee Iacocca
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
~ English Proverb
The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.
~ Frank Hamilton
How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.
~ Edward Mccabe
And now Lord what wait I for?
~ Bible
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
~ Frank Tibolt
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
~ Ben Nicholas
The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.
~ Charles M. Schwab
One of these days is none of these days.
~ H. G. Bohn
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~ Liz Smith
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.
~ Maurice Chevalier
There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.
~ Jacob K. Javits
It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.
~ Hilda Lawrence
The test of any man lies in action.
~ Pindar
Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
~ Anne Brontë
It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
By his deeds we know a man.
~ African Proverb
A human being has no discernible character until he acts.
~ Constantine Nash
What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
To do is to be.
~ Socrates
You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
To be is to do.
~ Plato
The way to do is to be.
~ Lao Tzu
The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.
~ Henry Miller
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
~ George Eliot
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.
~ William James
Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
~ William Blake
When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
~ Joseph Conrad
Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.
~ Barbara Harris
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.
~ Sir Walter Scott
