Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten.Neil StraussSourced
- If you only ever did the things you don't want to do, you'd have everything you've ever wanted.
- If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.
- If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
- If you spend your life waiting for your chance, you are spending your chance waiting.
- If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
- If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.
- If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting the rest of your life.
- If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
- If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something.
- If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.
- Imperfections cling to a man, which, if he wait till he have brushed off entirely, he will spin for ever on his axis, advancing nowhither.
- Implementation, not strategy, is what usually separates winners from losers in most industries, and generally explains the difference between success and failure
- In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.
- In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.
- In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer.
- In proportion as one loses himself in the way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
- In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
- In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
- In this great age, people who say it can't be done are interrupted by people who are doing it.
- Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
- Indecision and delay are the parents of failure.
- Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.
- Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
- Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
- Inward processes of thought make up the sum of character and life, and man can modify and alter these processes by bringing will and effort to bear upon them.
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth.
- Irresolution loosens all our joints; like an ague, it shakes not this limb or that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man hatches nothing, but addles all his actions.
- It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
- It does not matter that the wind is fair and the tide at its flood, if the mariner refuses to weigh his anchor and spread his canvas to the breeze.
- It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
- It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
- It is a mathematical fact that the casting of a pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
- It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
- It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.Alfred P. SloanSourced