Showing posts with label action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label action. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2013

Post #1163

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
—Sister Kenny

Friday, December 21, 2012

Post #1143

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friday, September 14, 2012

Post #1059


It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
—Zig Ziglar

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Post #1023

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.
—W. Clement Stone

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Post #1007

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
—Wendell Phillips

Monday, June 11, 2012

Post #975

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

Monday, June 04, 2012

Post #969

Nothing would be done at all if a man waits until he can do it so well that no one can find fault with it.
—John Newman

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Post #933

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
—John Milton

Friday, January 06, 2012

Post #823

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
—John Milton

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Post #769

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
—Sally Berger

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Post #717

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
—Miles Davis

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Post #658

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.
—Mark Twain

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Post #634

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
—Molière

Monday, June 20, 2011

Post #625

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
—Florynce Kennedy

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Post #590

God helps them that helps themselves.
—Benjamin Franklin

Friday, May 13, 2011

Post #588

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
—Barbara Sher

Saturday, May 07, 2011

Post #582

We will either find a way, or make one.
—Hannibal

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Post #538

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
—Charles Dickens

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Post #478

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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