Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way? Do it!
- So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
- Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
- Someday is not a day of the week.
- Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.
- Sometimes, what we fear the most is what we most need to do.
- Sometimes you have to stop being scared and just go for it. Either it will work out, or it won’t. That’s life. Do it scared!
- Soon is not as good as now.Seth GodinCommonly attributed
- Start before you’re ready.Steven PressfieldCommonly attributed
- Start before you're ready. Don't prepare, begin.
- Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling. Just start.
- Start small and start immediately.Cal NewportCommonly attributed
- Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong.
- Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
- Starting is not most people's problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.
- Stop telling yourself it won’t happen. Start doing the work to make it happen. You CAN create the life you dream about. Drop the excuses and go do it.
- Stop thinking about it. Stop worrying about it. Start doing something about it.
- Stop using what others might think as an excuse to not try.
- Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.
- Strong reasons make strong actions.
- Success does not come to you because you want it. Success comes to you because you do the right things.
- Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
- Swing for the fences! Go for your dreams! Do it now... Take a Swing!
- Tact is the result of refined sympathy.Arthur HelpsSourced
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Take a first step and see where it leads. The direction isn’t important yet.
- Take a simple idea and take it seriously. Simple ideas have been the source of most human success.
- Take on difficulties while they are still easy. Do great things while they are still small. Step by step the world’s burden is lifted. Piece by piece the world’s treasure is amassed.
- Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
- That which produces and maintains cheerfulness is nothing but activity.
- That which would have easily been remedied at first, becomes incurable by time and habit
- The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- The anxiety of worry is almost always worse than the actual consequences. Stop worrying and start doing.
- The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
- The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them,--besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor.
- The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
- The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
- The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
- The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.