Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.
- Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
- Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.
- Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?
- Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.
- Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
- As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the ‘how’ will reveal itself.
- As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
- Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
- At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.
- Attempt easy Tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy. In the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
- Attempt the great, pursue the great, and ultimately you will achieve the great.
- Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.
- Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
- Be a practical dreamer backed by action.
- Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
- Before a man can do things there must be things he will not do.MenciusSourced
- Begin at the beginning... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
- Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing.
- Begin your task before it becomes a burden. Put things in order before they get out of hand.
- Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression.
- Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.Annie BesantCommonly attributed
- Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Boatman, ask not what to do; Pull the Oar that's nearest you!
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
- Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless till it convert itself into conduct.
- But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail!
- By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never.
- Celerity is the mother of good fortune. He has done much who leaves nothing over till to-morrow.
- Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
- Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
- Circumstances? I make circumstances.
- Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
- Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
- Complaining does not work as a strategy.