Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
- Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
- Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
- Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Vision without execution is daydreaming.
- Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
- We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.
- We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
- We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
- We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
- We are the children of our own deeds.
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- We can finish nothing in this life, but we can make a beginning, and bequeath a noble example.
- We don't "have" a great day, we "make it" a great day!
- We don’t need more empathy in the world. We need more compassion. Empathy is feeling the pain and suffering of others. Compassion is acting to relieve the pain and suffering of others.
- We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.
- We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought.
- We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
- We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
- We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
- We need to recognize that we can’t do it all, that we face trade-offs every single minute of the day. We have to stop beating ourselves up for not doing everything perfectly.Sheryl SandbergCommonly attributed
- We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
- We spend more time justifying why it can’t be done than trying to do it.
- We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
- We work because we are saved; we do not work to be saved.
- Well begun is half done.
- Well done is better than well said.
- What I discovered is powerful: pushing yourself to take simple actions creates a chain reaction in your confidence and your productivity.
- What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
- What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence.
- What we do for others always seems like a lot, what others do for us seems like nothing.Francis de SalesCommonly attributed
- What we do without a purpose begrudgingly, with a purpose becomes a delight, and no work is well done nor healthily done which is not enthusiastically done.
- What would the world be like if people stopped avoiding the things they knew they should do?
- What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.
- What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
- What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.
- What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
- What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.