Browsing Quotes With Tag: action (156)
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Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon. The problem and the solution are usually obvious and simple. It’s not that you don’t know what to do. Of course you do. You are just terrified that you might end up worse off than you are now.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
Speaker: Viktor FranklSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a persons’ success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anythin, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens.
Speaker: Yvon ChouinardSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Speaker: Benjamin DisraeliSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
Speaker: YodaPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Many a false step was made by standing still.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded. The Gods were content to let us continue thus.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 6:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two kinds of failures: the man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Speaker: Perle ThompsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The chief vice of many people consists not in doing evil, but in permitting it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Pray as if everything depended on God, and then work as if everything depended on you.
Speaker: Francis Cardinal SpellmanPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Speaker: Francis of AssisiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Speaker: Calvin CoolidgePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Edison once was asked how he accomplished so much. He said, ‘It is deceptively simple. You and I have eighteen hours in a day in which we do something. You spend that eighteen hours doing a number of unrelated things. I spend it doing just one thing, and some of my work is bound to amount to something.
Speaker: Sterling W. SillPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and God gives abundantly to industry. So plow deep while the sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People pay very little attention to what you say about your religion. they’re too busy watching what you do about it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Speaker: Charles F. KetteringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!