Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.' In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'
- Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
- Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
- Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment.
- Many people procrastinate because they’re waiting for their motivation to rise. They forget that getting started is what leads their motivation to rise.
- Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
- Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
- Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.
- Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that’s what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.
- Motivation is garbage. You don’t need to feel like it to do it. You need discipline. A push. A decision. Waiting to feel ready is the fastest way to stay stuck. You want change? 5-4-3-2-1 move.
- Move towards what scares you.
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
- Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
- Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Never confuse movement with action.
- Never leave that till to-morrow, which you can do to-day.
- Never mistake activity for achievement.
- Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
- Never think any portion of time whatsoever too short to be employed; something or other may always be done in it.
- Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
- No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
- No amount of thinking is going to fix the problem that is solved by doing.
- No honestly exerted force can be utterly lost.
- No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
- No matter how small the step, forward is forward.
- No matter what a man’s aims, or resolutions, or professions may be, it is by one’s deeds that he is to be judged, both by God and man.
- No one has ever become poor by giving. If you act that way, then after a few generations people will no longer have to feel sorry for child beggars, because there will no longer be any!
- No one knows what he can do till he tries.
- No one of us can do everything, but each of us can do something, and if we work together the aggregate of these somethings will be very considerable.
- Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?
- Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.
- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
- None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
- Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination.
- Not planning your days is a recipe for procrastination. Structure creates clarity. Clarity creates action.
- Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck," says a Chinese author, "leads the flock to fly and follow.
- Not trying is failure.
- Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
- Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.