We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Quote by Frank Tibolt

Topics: Action Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always...

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always...

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If...

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If...

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell...

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and...

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and...

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The...

Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The...

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

Never confuse motion with action.

Never confuse motion with action.

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant

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

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

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious...

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious...

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the...

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops...

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of...

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of...

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and...

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and...

Big doors swing on little hinges.

Big doors swing on little hinges.