Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Things don't just happen, they are made to happen.John F. KennedySourced
- Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
- Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
- Things should not be done by halves; if it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated.
- Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- Thus at a banquet, do not discuss how people ought to eat; but eat as you ought.
- Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.
- Time and chance can do nothing for those who will do nothing for themselves. Providence itself can scarcely save a people who are not prepared to make a struggle for their safety.
- 'Tis better to have tried in vain, Sincerely striving for a goal, Than to have lived upon the plain An idle and a timid soul.
- To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- To be able to walk well, one must walk on, and to work with ease and effect, one must work on.
- To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
- To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
- To-day God invites you to do good; do it therefore to-day. To-morrow you may not have time, or God may no longer call you to do it.
- To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
- To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.Harriet Beecher StoweCommonly attributed
- To do the most that lies in you, you must go with a heart and head full of hope and faith in the world, believing that there is work for you to do, believing that you are the person to accomplish that work, and the one who is going to accomplish it.
- To do two things at once is to do neither.
- To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
- To live is not to breathe; it is to act.
- To make hits, take swings.
- To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action.
- To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
- To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
- To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
- To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.
- To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
- Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
- Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
- Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
- Trust in God, yet tie the camel's leg.
- Trust that little voice in your head that says “Wouldn’t it be interesting if..”; And then do it.
- Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
- UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Until a decision has been translated into action, it is only a good intention.