Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
Other voices on Action
- It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
- It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
- It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.
- It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
- It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom.
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
- It is enough if you work in the right direction.
- It is for us to go straight on with the duty of the hour, and the way opens as we push ahead.
- It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
- It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
- It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
- It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing--"Carry a message to Garcia."
- It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
- It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
- It is not enough to know, we must also apply; it is not enough to will, we must also do.
- It is not extraordinary circumstances, or rich friends, or large capital, that create the golden opportunities of life. It is something in the person that thinks and gets an idea, and seizes the first possible moment to do what he can toward developing it.
- It is not the knowledge, but the use which is made of it that is productive of real benefit.
- It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
- It is of no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.
- It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.Horace MannSourced
- It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
- It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find.
- It often happens that you get nothing because you don't try anything.
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life, to wait until you’re ready.
- It's better to be perfectly useful than uselessly perfect.
- It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life.
- It’s better to do less than you hoped than nothing at all. No zero days.
- Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if
- It’s better to start something and risk looking like an idiot than sit there and accomplish nothing.
- It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.
- It’s hard to win if you’re halfway in.
- It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
- It's not knowing what to do; it's doing what you know.Tony RobbinsCommonly attributed
- It's not the big moves that change everything—it's the smallest ones in your everyday life that do.
- It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
- It’s not what you know, it’s what you do consistently.