Horace Quotes

You will never win if you never begin.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

You have to make it happen.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

If you haven't done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

If you want to do things, do things.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

It is better to start doing what one has to late than not at all.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

In order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

If you've got something you want to do, do it right now.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.