Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
- Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
- Nothing will be mended by complaints.
- Nothing will teach you how to do something faster than trying and failing.
- Nothing will work unless you do.
- Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.John Henry NewmanSourced
- Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
- Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense... Not to grieve long for any action, but to go immediately and do freshly and otherwise, subtracts so much from the wrong.
- One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
- One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
- One must be something in order to do something.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSourced
- One must have that determination which never looks back and which knows no defeat; that resolution which burns all bridges behind it and is willing to risk everything upon the effort.
- One of the best escapes from the prison of procrastination is to take even the smallest step toward your goal.
- One of the causes of procrastination is a state of overwhelm. Break your task into small, easy steps that don’t look scary and complicated.
- One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
- One of the main seats of our weakness lies in this very notion, that what we do at the moment cannot matter much; for that we shall be able to alter and mend and patch it just as we like by-and-by.
- One small win before 9 AM sets the tone for 9 PM. Make your bed. Go for a walk. Journal for 10 minutes. Momentum is built, not gifted.
- One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
- One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
- Only action gives life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
- Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.ConfuciusCommonly attributed
- Only engage and then the mind grows heated; Begin and then the work will be completed.
- Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
- Opportunities grow stale unless promptly seized and used.
- Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Opportunity is something a Fool waits for while the Wise Guy runs down the road to meet it.
- Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
- Optimism is the sunshine of the soul radiated in action.
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.Thomas CarlyleSourced
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- People do not lack strength; they lack will.
- People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.
- Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
- Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
- Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.