Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. 'Know thyself:' long enough has that poor 'self' of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to 'know' it, I believe!
- The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
- The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.Henry LiddonCommonly attributed
- The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
- The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.Cesare PaveseCommonly attributed
- The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
- The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, and then to treat them as probabilities.
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
- The more we think of what we should have done, the less we think of what we should do.
- The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
- The most important thing to learn in school is that you can learn almost anything, and so you shouldn’t let not knowing about something be an excuse for not doing what you want to do. Go focus and study.
- The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.
- The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.
- The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
- The only choice we have is to begin. And the only place to begin is where we are. Simply begin. But begin.Seth GodinCommonly attributed
- The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
- The only failures are those who fail to try.
- The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
- The only joy in the world is to begin.
- The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!
- The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.
- The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.
- The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly. The pain of failing to try, on the other hand, is less intense but never really goes away.
- The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.
- The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.
- The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.Peter F. DruckerCommonly attributed
- The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base.
- The problem of quality management is not what people don't know about it. The problem is what the think they do know.
- The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.
- The problem with waiting is no one is coming. The only permission you need is your own.
- The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.
- The quality which you put into your work will determine the quality of your life.
- The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.
- The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.
- The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers.
- The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- The shortest and the surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so.