The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
- Ernest Newman
If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
- Mignon McLaughlin
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
- Maria Edgeworth
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
- Arnold Glasow
The first step binds one to the second.
- French Proverb
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
- Brendan Francis
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
- William F. Halsey
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
- Calvin Coolidge
The best way out of a problem is through it.
- Author Unknown
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- Peter Marshall
All know the way; few actually walk it.
- Bodhidharma
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
- Baltasar Gracian
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
- Lewis Cass
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
- Jonatan Mårtensson
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
- Moliere
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Anthony Robbins
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
- Jules Renard
Act as if it were impossible to fail
- Dorthea Brande
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
- Napoleon Hill
If you only do what you know you can do - you never do very much.
- Tom Krause
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
