Action
933 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 910 from other voices.
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- I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
- I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance.
- I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
- I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.
- Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.
- Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
- Ideas without action are useless.
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
- If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
- If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
- If every risk you take pays off, then you probably aren’t actually taking risks.
- If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I care for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
- If I look at the mass I will never act.
- If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
- If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
- If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
- If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
- If the world's a wilderness, Go, build houses in it!
- If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
- If there is any one fact or doctrine, or command, or promise in the Bible which has produced no practical effect on your temper, or heart, or conduct, be assured you do not truly believe it.
- If there is hope in the future, there is power in the present.
- If today were the last of your life, would you do what you were going to do today?
- If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
- If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
- If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
- If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
- If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
- If you didn’t learn these things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them for?
- If you do enough small things right, big things can happen.
- If you do things the same way you've always done them, you'll get the same outcomes you've always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you've got to do things differently.
- If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
- If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
- If you don't try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
- If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
- If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
- If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed.
- If you have time don't wait for time.
- If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.
- If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.