Quotes about getting

James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

22. Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a wheelbarrow. Trust in God is like getting in the wheelbarrow! To believe God can do something miraculous is one thing to risk His willingness to do it in your life is another.

William Wordsworth -

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

John Naisbitt -

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Elon Musk -

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

Andre Ward -

Getting hit is not cool.

Elizabeth Taylor -

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Katharine Whitehorn -

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Grace Kelly -

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

Christina Engela - Dead Man's Hammer

Ramalama was moving higher in the sky already, the day was getting on. He was going to be late getting to San Fedora for his meeting with the Sheriff. And as a bounty hunter – even a good one with a lot of work, time is money. It seemed today that time was running out for Beck the Badfeller.

Matthew Donnelly -

Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.

Steven Magee - Toxic Health

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.

Sunday Adelaja -

After getting myself relatively educated in the area of national transformation, I have come to discover that it makes better sense to look at what I could do to fix the problems of the society rather than blaming others for what is wrong in the country.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

Debasish Mridha -

Live, not just for livingLive, not just for gettingLive for the beauty of lovingLive for the joy of giving.

Anthony T. Hincks -

The world's not getting any stranger.We are!

Deyth Banger -

If not careful... there is possibility getting spoiled.

Thomas Henry Huxley -

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.

Anne Frank -

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!

Sir William Osier -

To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Plautus -

If you want to do something do it!

Heinrich Boll -

Something must happen!

George Claude Lorimer -

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Miguel de Cervantes -

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Baltasar Gracian -

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Charles Baudelaire -

In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

E. L. Simpson -

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin it should make you jump up and do something.

Victor Kiam -

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Sydney Smith -

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Maria Edgeworth -

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.

Norman Douglas -

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

Hannah Moore -

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Virgil -

The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way.

Aeschylus -

Delay not to seize the hour!

Mark Twain -

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Chinese rhyme -

This one makes a net this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

Brendan Francis -

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

W. H. Auden -

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

William Benton -

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

Henry Moore -

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Woody Allen -

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Ernest Hemingway -

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

William Feather -

The way to get ahead is to start now.

Marie Beynon Ray -

Begin doing what you want to do now.

David Spangler -

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

Will Rogers -

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Anonymous -

The first step is the hardest.

Mary Heaton Vorse -

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Anonymous -

Every beginning is hard.

Chinese proverb -

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Indira Gandhi -

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.

Johann von Goethe -

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Anonymous -

If you don't place your foot on the rope you'll never cross the chasm.

Dutch proverb -

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

Greek proverb -

The beginning is half of every action.

Chinese proverb -

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Robert Louis Stevenson -

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Simone de Beauvoir -

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future act now without delay.

Bruce Barton -

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

Mrs. Herman Stanley -

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

The Independent -

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

Toni Cade Bambara -

The most effective way to do it is to do it.

Rachel Carson -

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

Howard Zinn -

We will not know unless we begin.

Alexander Clark -

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

Faith Baldwin -

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood however much you preach posture or agree unless you live it.

Sally Berger -

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

John Tillotson -

To always be intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.

Starhawk -

To choose is also to begin.

Johann von Goethe -

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.

Yula Moses -

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Linda Blandford -

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Dorothy Day -

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Charles Kingsley -

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

Rainer Maria Rilke -

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

Irene Kassorla -

Don't wait for your "ship to come in " and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Madame C. J. Walker -

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.

William J. H. Boetcker -

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William James -

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

James Russell Lowell -

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

George Eliot -

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger -

Now go take on the day!

Frederick B. Wilson -

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

James A. Froude -

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.

Wendell Phillips -

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

William Gilmore Simms -

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Alfred - Lord Tennyson

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.

Albert Camus -

Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.

Thomas Henry Huxley -

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Florynce Kennedy -

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Charles Dickens -

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

Aristotle -

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. -

Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

William Shakespeare -

Action is eloquence.

English proverb -

The shortest answer is doing.

Thomas Carlyle -

The end of man is action.

Edward L. Curtis -

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Charlotte P. Gilman -

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Saint John Perse -

The only menace is inertia.

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