Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- The shortest answer is doing.George HerbertSourced
- The single most important factor to success is the ability to make things happen. This requires determination, resourcefulness, focus, tenacity, confidence, a willingness to look like an idiot, and an ability to do the work when no one is watching.
- The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.Robin SharmaCommonly attributed
- The student who lays the bricks must learn to lay each brick as well as it is possible for him to lay it, and then do still better work on the morrow.
- The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.
- The time is always right to do what’s right.
- The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
- The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it.
- The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step.
- The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
- The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen.
- The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
- The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
- The way to get ahead is to start now.
- The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.Walt DisneyCommonly attributed
- The way to mend the bad world, is to create the right world.
- The well-served customer...is an appreciating asset. Every small act on her or his behalf ups the odds of repeat business, add-on business, and priceless word-of-mouth referral.
- The Wise do at once what the Fool does at last. Both do the same thing; the only difference lies in the time they do it: the one at the right time, the other at the wrong.
- The work may be done in a thousand different ways—with the brain or the hands, in the study, the field, or the workshop—if it is honest work, honestly done and well worth doing, that is all we have a right to ask.
- The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
- The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.
- The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field, I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
- The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.Pearl S. BuckSourced
- There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
- There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
- There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
- There are plenty of good maxims in the world; we fail only in applying them.
- There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
- There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
- There is a bunch of things we mean to do, and life is the time we spend meaning to do them.
- There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
- There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.
- There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again.
- There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
- There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
- There’s a clock ticking that none of us can see, and at some point you life will be over. There’s power available to your right now to make the most of the time you do have.
- There’s no perfect decision. Make the call. You’ll adjust.
- These suggestions will give you the necessary instructions: First: Form the habit of doing each day the most distasteful tasks first.