Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.
- The blessed work of helping the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.
- The conviction is extending that diligence is the mother of good luck; in other words, that a man's success in life will be proportionate to his efforts, to his industry, to his attention to small things.
- The desire must ripen into purpose and effort; and one energetic attempt is worth a thousand aspirations.
- The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it.
- The doer alone learneth.
- The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
- The effort always to do your best will enlarge your capacity for doing things, and will encourage you to push ahead toward larger triumphs.
- The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
- The energy we spend to complain can be redirected to act for change. When we take responsibility, we get out of the victim mode and move on.
- The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
- The fact is nothing comes; at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
- The fact is, that to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
- The first requirement in taking a step in the right direction is to take a step in some direction.
- The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.
- The future depends on what we do in the present.
- The future depends on what you do today.
- The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
- The goal of all learning is action, not knowledge.
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each, but in the amount of intelligent work.
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
- The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.
- The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
- The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
- The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
- The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
- The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
- The hard stuff will always be hard. The scary stuff will always be scary. It won’t ever feel easy and you won’t ever feel like doing it. The real way to move forward is knowing that you can push yourself. You can do it anyway. That’s how you succeed.
- The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out the way, you’ll find the rest of journey much easier.
- The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.
- The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.
- The idea that we want to mitigate risk to zero before we act is really common and really costly.
- The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.
- The key to success is action. No successful person got where they are today by luck, it all comes with hard work and dedication to their craft.
- The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.