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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. (Robbins Tony)
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. (Robbins Tony)
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. (Robbins Tony)
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. (Robbins Tony)
Never confuse motion with action. (Robbins Tony)
Action is the real measure of intelligence. (Robbins Tony)
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. (Robbins Tony)
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. (Robbins Tony)
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action. (Robbins Tony)
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action. (Robbins Tony)
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. (Robbins Tony)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. (Robbins Tony)
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. (Robbins Tony)
When all is said and done, more is said than done. (Robbins Tony)
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. (Robbins Tony)
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning (Robbins Tony)
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. (Robbins Tony)
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. (Robbins Tony)
Allow motion to equal emotion. (Robbins Tony)
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. (Robbins Tony)
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. (Robbins Tony)
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