Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.Lord ChesterfieldSourced
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else.
- When a situation is within your control, take action. When a situation is outside your control, make preparations.
- When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
- When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
- When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.
- When the ancients said that a work begun was half done, they meant that we ought to take the utmost pains in every undertaking to make a good beginning.
- When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.
- When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.Randy PauschCommonly attributed
- When you don't move on life, life moves on you.
- When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- When you start doing it for the perceptions of others, you’re never going to win. Your biggest believer in what you do should be you.
- When you talk about your dreams stop saying “I want” and start saying “I will.
- Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything he wants you to do.
- Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour.
- While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
- While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.
- While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- While we wait for life, life passes.
- Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
- Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practise it, is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
- Why wilt thou defer thy good purpose from day to day? Arise and begin this very instant, and say, 'Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be striving, now is the fit time to amend myself.'
- Will it, and set to work briskly.
- Win through your actions, never through argument.
- Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.
- Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
- Wisdom is only knowledge well applied.
- Wishing good, merely, is a lukewarm charity; but doing good is divine.
- Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
- With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
- With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
- Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
- Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
- Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- You are always willing enough to read lives, but never willing to lead them.
- You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.