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Aphorisms 46
I love quotes… but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it's worthless.
— Tony Robbins
The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.
— Harsha Bhogle
Life is an action, it isn't an existence.
— Anonymous
You'll have plenty of time to rest when you're dead!
— Anonymous
The closest thing to being magnificent is feeling and acting as if you are.
— Anonymous
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
— Buddha
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A goal without a plan is a wish.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Suffer the pain of discipline now or suffer the pain of regret later.
— Anonymous
An opportunity can be lost in the blink of an eye but regret can last forever!
— Anonymous
I don't regret the things I have done in the past. I only regret the things I did not do when I had a chance.
— Anonymous
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
— Mick Jagger
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior man exists in torture.
— Benedetto Croce
We can do no great things — only small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and…
— Kerry Gleeson
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.
— Elbert Hubbard
No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do…
— George F. Nordenholt
Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action.
— David Kekich
Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done.
— Julia Louis Woodruff
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.
— Mme. du Deffand
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
— Henri Bergson
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is…
— George Bernanos
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the…
— Arnold Toynbee
When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else — we are the busiest people in the…
— Eric Hoffer
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear…
— Henry Ward Beecher
The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming…
— Mark Twain
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
— Amy Tan
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
— Bertolt Brecht
Many a false step was made by standing still.
— Fortune Cookie
The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.
— Frank Miller
There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!
— Vicki Baum
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.
— Gurbaksh Chahal
There's no inherent meaning in information — it's what we do with that information that matters.
— Beau Lotto
Use it or lose it.
— Anonymous
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on.
— Ibn-e-Safi
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
— Alex Haley
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
— Nelson DeMille
I am a poet in deeds — not often in words.
— Ian Fleming
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the…
— Henry David Thoreau
To prove people wrong, don’t make a counterargument; be a counterargument.
— Mark Manson
What has your fear of embarrassment held you back from doing? What if you simply… well, didn’t give a fuck?
— Mark Manson
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe