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
Action is the antidote to despair.
~ Joan Baez
Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Performance releases pressure.
~ Anonymous
Wishing does not make a poor man rich.
~ Arab Proverb
You can't get rich sitting on the bench.
~ Phil Linz
Action makes more fortunes than caution.
~ Vauvenargues
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more.
