Cool Quotes and Sayings

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Action is the antidote to despair.

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
- Tom Krause

Action is eloquence.
- William Shakespeare

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde

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

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the real man of action.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
– Napoleon Hill

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
- Alexander Pope

The first step binds one to the second.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
- Henry Ford

If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher

Action conquers fear.
- Peter Nivio

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
- Tehyi Hsieh

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
- Edward Abbey

If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help.

Love is not consolation. It is light.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it’s that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
- Aaron Rose

Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Love without attachment is light.
- N O Brown

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
- Anne Sullivan Macy

Light is the task where many share the toil.
- Homer

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
- Stefan Zweig

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
- Peace Pilgrim

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
- Peter Thomson

We burn daylight.
- William Shakespeare

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
- Douglas Adams

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
- Mark Twain

Fat people are harder to kidnap.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
- Milne

Training isn’t a matter of life and death, It is more than that.

Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
- Cher

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
- R M Hutchins

Runners make the best girlfriends, catch me if you can.

Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
- George Sheehan

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
- Phyllis Diller

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck.

I keep Trying to lose weight , but it keeps finding me.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
- Hugh Blair

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
- Henry Ford

Does Running late count as exercise?

I love being surrounded by dumb bells .

I Exercise – run my mouth, push my luck and jump to conclusions .

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
- A Y Thornton

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
- Mark Twain

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
- Benjamin Jowett

Logic is like the sword, those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
- Samuel Butler

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
- Charles K. Kettering

Better to be without logic than without feeling.
- Charlotte Bronte

Logic : The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Ambrose Bierce

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
- David Borenstein

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
- Aldous Huxley

Logic is one thing and Common Sense another.
- Elbert Hubbard

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
- Samuel Butler

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
- L D Brandeis

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
- A N Wilson

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and long honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Self confidence is the key to the universe.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
- David Brinkley

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
- Sally Field

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
- P T Mcintyre

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
- Henry Ford

Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It’s so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success comes in cans, not cant’s.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
P T Mcintyre

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.