Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- Hell is paved with good intentions.
- Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.
- Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Hope is a vigorous principle; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
- Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action.
- How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee.
- How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
- How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
- How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them.Marcus AureliusCommonly attributed
- How soon "not now" becomes "never!
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!
- How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.
- I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.Smith WigglesworthCommonly attributed
- I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through.
- I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
- I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
- I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.
- I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.Richard FeynmanSourced
- I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
- I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
- I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
- I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
- I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
- I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and that you couldn't replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do things that no number of average people could do.
- I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
- I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
- I have found nothing better for man than silence; not learning but doing is the chief thing
- I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. (8 November 1944)Eleanor RooseveltCommonly attributed
- I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything.
- I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
- I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction.
- I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor.