Browsing Quotes With Tag: action (156)
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For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil there is one striking at the root.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that the fastest way to change a person’s behavior is to change his map of or frame of reference by calling him a different name, giving him a different role responsibility, or placing him in a different situation.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to change the world is to change your head, that is, your thinking, your perceptions.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Knowing the power of Necessity is irresistible.” Prometheus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I were to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
Speaker: SantayanaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
Speaker: William BulithoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of what we call evil… can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them – and forgetting them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every ailment under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it;
If there be none, never mind it.Speaker: Mother GoosePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A certain comfortable security, a certain profound inner peace, a kind of happy numbness, soothes the nerves of the human animal when absorbed in his allotted task.
Speaker: John Cowper PowysPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Speaker: Alfred TennysonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going round and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty percent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty percent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
Speaker: Galen LitchfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.
Speaker: Charles KetteringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labor of thinking.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!