Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.
- Postponement: The father of failure.
- Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work.
- Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
- Procrastinating on something important is choosing to delay a better future.
- Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
- Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
- Progress is the ultimate motivation.
- Prove your words by your deeds.
- Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into decay.
- Push on,—keep moving.Thomas MortonSourced
- Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
- Put all excuses aside and remember this – you are capable.
- Put such a quality into your work that anyone who comes across anything you have ever done will see character in it, individuality in it, your trade-mark of superiority upon it.
- Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
- Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.
- Read books to gain knowledge. Take action to gain wisdom.
- Reading is how you learn from others. Writing is how you learn from yourself. Doing is how you truly deeply learn.
- Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.
- Real love is not in words but in deeds, and only love can give real wisdom.
- Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.
- Regardless of what you think or feel or wish to be true, true values are reflected in your choices and actions.
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it’s your turn.
- Remember then: there is only one time that is important--Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
- Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
- Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
- Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
- Resolved, Always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.
- Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
- Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
- Seize this very minute: What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.
- Self-doubt loves hesitation. Confidence loves action.
- Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
- Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.
- Sloth never made its mark in the world, and never will.
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.