“Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
“What I find most attractive is the direct link between how hard you work and the outcome you get. You own the results.”
“When you act (putting some knowledge into action, practicing, making, tinkering, whatever) you force your mind into the creative mode. It is now becoming better at something. It is now making something.”
“Talk without effort is nothing.”
“Lots of people look like they have it figured it, but when you look closer most of them are just as clueless as you. Nobody has it figured it out. Everybody is just making it up as they go along.”
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step…”
“He that rises late must trot all day.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Comfort dulls the mind. Action makes it free. Embrace danger to be the best you possibly be.”
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
“If you are going to quit, do it right away – because the first two years of anything are the hardest and success ensues when you persevere thereafter. Everything can look like a failure in the middle. That perception becomes reality only when you quit before you’ve succeeded.”
“The Law of Diminishing Intent: The longer you wait to do something you know you should do now, the greater the chances are you’ll never actually do it.”
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
“Either you create the definition yourself or you accept someone else’s definition.”
“Do things. Silly things, mediocre things, clumsy things – it doesn’t matter what you do as a beginner as long as you are in there NOW doing something.”
“When each person wakes up and decides that no more days will pass with he or she doing things that do not add to his or her life, then this world will shift.”
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.”
“Progress is rarely made linearly. Most of our work goes ‘unrewarded’ but is silently building toward a breakthrough moment that makes it all worth it.”
“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.”
“When your calling seems vague and unclear, you’re on the right track.” We all want to be told “this is the way; go do this.” But life doesn’t work that way. If you’re feeling lost and directionless, the good news is that this means you are in the midst of an incredible story called your life.”
“One way or the other, if you want to succeed, you have to do the work — mentally or physically.”
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
“Succeeding in life is not hard. Just make decisions, then do it.”
“At 18, you’re worried about what everyone things about you. At 30, you don’t care what anyone thinks of you. And at 60, you realize no one was thinking about you to begin with.”
“Action is the simplest way to avoid procrastination. Get up and throw yourself into the battle.”
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
“When I set a goal of “210 pounds and 13% body fat” I stopped going to the gym and began eating stupid amounts of ice cream. When I decided on the system of “work out every day” I began a real path to fitness success.”
“Standing still — failure to act – causes people who are faced with a problem to become nervous, to feel stymied or trapped, and it can bring on a host of physical problems.”
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.”
“Most of the time, planning is procrastination.”
“As a general rule, people have to go find luck; it doesn’t find them. Luck is attracted to action and energy; it doesn’t come looking for you on the couch.”
“Adversity, when overcome, strengthens us. So we are giving thanks not for the problem itself but for the strength and knowledge that will come from it. Giving thanks for this growth ahead of time will help you to grow through — not just go through — your challenges.”
“Most of the things worth doing in the world have been
declared impossible before they were attempted.”
“The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.”
“You’re not supposed to dwell on a picture of you struggling to climb the mountain. You’re supposed to dwell on the picture of you at the top of the mountain.”
“The difference between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 is the way they think. Simply believing in doing the improbable catapults you into the top five percent of the population.
“It’s not about genius or talent. It’s about work and commitment.”
“Action is often the answer you were looking for. There is no intellectual answer, you must experience the thing. You must try it out for real, not in the abstract.”
“The solutions are simple. We should get up early, work hard, and avoid things that waste time in our lives. Yes, it is easier said than done, but to be honest, reading another time management book is not the answer.”
“We have to dream. How else will we make a future that does not yet exist?”
“Put one foot in front of the other, and soon you’ll be walking out the door.”
“Stop goal setting. Go goal getting.”
“Success and achievement requires effort.”
“You know, what I finally learned after a long time is basically if you want something enough—unless you’re totally without ability—but if you want something enough, and you keep pushing toward it, you will probably get there because nobody is pushing back with the same amount of energy.”
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
“The biggest lesson I’ve learned throughout my journey is that you have to just start.”
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
“There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
“A successful business doesn’t just “happen”. You have to make it happen. And the same thing applies to a successful marriage, a successful friendship or a successful relationship with your Creator.”
“The critical ingredient of success is to get off of your butt and do something.”
“You either win or you learn.”
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
“The chains of habit are usually too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
“Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
“Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.”
If we don’t start, it’s certain we can’t arrive.
“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”
“The secret to success is action, not attitude. It doesn’t matter what your attitude is. What matters is what you do with your time. If you do the right things you will be successful regardless of your emotional condition or mental attitude. If you do the wrong things, no amount of positive thinking will save you.”
“Where you are today does NOT determine where you are in the future.”
“Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“Be an ACTION TAKER, not an info gatherer. Do, don’t just talk. Get outside of your comfort zone. Avoid self-sabotage. Fail forward. Those who don’t take personal responsibility or action will be in the same place 12 months from now…only older.”
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
“You can’t make footprints in the sands of time while sitting on your butt. And who wants to make butt prints in the sands of time?”
“100% of all projects that are not complete produce ZERO.”
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
“All people, of every race, in every career, of all ages, have to deal with failure. Embracing the law of average and focusing on your efforts is the salesperson’s secret to success.”
“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.”
“Knowledge is not power, it’s frustration. Applied knowledge is power.”
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better”
“The reason you don’t feel alive is because you’ve worn yourself out thinking about things instead of actually doing them. You haven’t moved because your habit is to flinch away from action.”
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
“The only way to ‘find out if it will work out’ is to do it.”
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and
a deadline.”
“The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.”
“Assume that no help is on its way. Remember that help can only come to those who help themselves. Take action.”
“Most people who are frightened to make decisions are frozen because they’re scared of making ‘the wrong decision’. But a wrong decision is easier to turn around once you are moving.”
“Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by.”
“Confidence is not something you either have or don’t have. It’s something you grow over time.”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
“Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”
“A winner must first know what losing’s like.”
“Just pick something. There is no right answer. NO ONE knows what will work for you.”
“Action doesn’t care what you think, just what you do.”
“Analysis paralysis is a consequence of having too much choice.”
“Action is progress.”
“You aren’t licked until you quit.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“Items in our world become meaningful when we have willingly torn our flesh in winning them from some resisting force.”
“Successful people act They do not sit and wait and hope something will happen. They go out and make things happen. W. Clement Stone, the highly successful insurance billionaire attributed much of his success to three simple words: ‘Do it now!’ Take massive action.”
“Do what you’re scared of and you’ll look back afterwards and you’ll see you grew right then.”
“Action now is a bargain compared to what it’s going to cost later.”
“You are going to live through good times and bad times. You are going to live in periods of excess opportunity and times when it looks like there is zero opportunity. Focus on doing the best work you can today.”
“Knowledge isn’t power – action is.”
“Clever people over-think situations.”
“Difficult situations are rarely resolved with positive thoughts or gratitude alone, however. It takes another crucial ingredient: sustained action.”
“When you’re not goal-striving, not looking forward, you’re not really living.”
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ”
“Falling is normal. Failing is normal. Staying down and never trying to walk again isn’t. Even babies don’t do that.”
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
The only difference between a dream and reality is ACTION.
“If you’re not really doing what you want to be doing, what exactly do you believe you are here for?”
“The steps you need to take don’t have to be big. They just need to be in the right direction.”
“No one else can do it for you. No one else can show up at your house and eat less and move more for you if you want to lose weight. No one else can stop you from watching television and to spend that time on creating a second income instead. No one else can say the words, ‘I love you’ or ‘I forgive you’ to mend the important relationships in your life.”
“Trust that still, small voice that says, This might work and I’ll try it.”
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
“Everybody is clueless. Lots of people look like they have it figured it, but when you look closer most of them are just as clueless as you. Nobody has it figured it out. Everybody is just making it up as they go along. We underestimate the influence chaos plays in the world in order to maintain our sanity.”
“Dream big. Start small. But most of all … start.”
“A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now.”
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
“Action Creates Courage.”
“We need to stop thinking and start acting. Stop looking at the big red button and push it. Stop planning and take a step forward. Stop talking about grit and take a hit.”
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
“The difference is execution. Do something. Even a tiny something.”
“Don’t wait for conditions to be perfect for you to take action, because they will never be. Something will always feel off, and your subconscious mind will always justify complacency. You must BEAT your subconscious into SUBMISSION.”
“Rather than wondering about or questioning the direction your life has taken, accept the fact that there is a path before you now. Shake off the “why’s” and “what if’s,” and rid yourself of confusion. Whatever was – is in the past. Whatever is – is what’s important. The past is a brief reflection. The future is yet to be realized. Today is here.”
“Be a doer… success comes to those who TAKE what they want by DOING something that gets them closer to their goals each day. Even if you’re wrong, doing something is better than doing nothing.”
“So what is the secret that the successful people know and use that most people do not? It’s the belief they hold and the belief on which they take action.”
“Indecision is a vacuum. It does no good whatsoever.”
“Action defeats worry.”
“Courage is Just the Confidence to Act”
“How do I get rid of the fear?” Alas, this is the wrong question. The only way to get rid of the fear is to stop doing things that might not work, to stop putting yourself out there, to stop doing work that matters. No, the right question is, “How do I dance with the fear?” Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.”
“The persistence and determination must come from you.”
“The only things that stand between people and what they want from life, is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing it.”
“Love of bustle is not industry.”
“Above All Else – Move.”
“A start is more than most people ever achieve.”
“Progress is more important than perfection.”
“Every day we choose inaction over action it makes it harder to take action. We weaken ourselves. Every time we take action we become stronger.”
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
“An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined – and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work.”
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.”
“One of the biggest mistakes I see new marketers make is they’re trying to learn too much. The problem is most will never get out of this learning mode. It’s time to stop learning Internet marketing, and start doing Internet marketing.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“There’s a huge difference between knowing a thing and benefiting from it. Knowing simply isn’t enough. Knowledge in action is really the only thing that brings results.”
“KEEP IT SIMPLE! If I struggle to understand a concept, offer or sales pitch, so will my customers!”
“It’s hard for an infant to walk, or for a toddler to wait. It’s difficult to do homework or start a business. It’s all challenging at first. But in nearly every case, there is one thing that makes almost anything easier; starting.”
“There is nothing wrong with affirmations provided we remember two important rules. First, we should never allow an affirmation to replace action. Feeling better is no substitute for doing better. And second, whatever we affirm must be the truth.”
“Motivation Follows Action.”
“Don’t go for home runs. Go for singles and doubles. If you follow this advice you’ll be amazed at the results.”
Fear goes hand in hand with success. You’ll never unlock your potential if you hide within the shell of your comfort zone.
“A step in the right direction is better than staying ‘on the spot” all your life’
“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word ‘succeed,’ you find that it simply means to follow through.”
“It’s just about deciding to do it then getting on with it. Make the decision. Then start taking action.”
“Instead of wondering if you could have been, should have been, or might have been… just do. Take action.”
“Life is about execution rather than purpose.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Motion beats meditation.”
“Our biggest fears carry with them the greatest opportunity for personal growth.”
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
“Do one thing each day you don’t want to do. Success is challenging. It’s easier to watch TV and lounge around. In interviewing a ton of millionaires over the years, one thing I’ve learned about how millionaires think is this: Successful people make a habit of doing some things they don’t like doing.”
“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”
“You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.”
“Ideas alone do not and can not bring success. Ideas are important, but they are only valuable after they have been implemented.”
“When you do your best, you’re often THE best. Why? Because hardly anyone else is doing THEIR best.”
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
“Do everything you can, with whatever you have, RIGHT NOW. Stop waiting. Stop waiting for a better business. Stop waiting for permission. Stop waiting for better technology. Stop waiting for a better political climate. Stop waiting for a future event. Stop waiting for someone else to act. Stop waiting for something outside yourself to happen before you start taking action and start moving towards your goal. Adopt the self motivator—DO IT NOW.”
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
“Control what you can, cope with what you can’t, and concentrate on what counts.”
“The best way to predict the future, is to create it.”
“You Have to Start Over! We all do. If you truly want to be successful, you have to become good at starting over–even when you don’t feel like it.”
“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
“Successful people start before they feel ready.”
“We don’t always win. But if we fight the good fight and we stay strong, we will keep moving towards our goals. Never, ever, ever give up.”
“The fire-fly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken.”
“The most effective way to become your own mentor isn’t to focus on yourself at all. The secret is to invest your time and resources in the service of others.”
“You have no excuse not to follow your whims, your urges, and your interests. They may not last, they may not be big – but they will show you possibilities that you would never have known of if you didn’t follow them.”
“Motivation follows action instead of the other way around.”
“When you screw up, skip a workout, eat bad foods, or sleep in, it doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you human. Welcome to the club.”
“You only have to be better at something than the person paying you to do it.”
“Don’t look ahead. Concentrate solely on the very first step. Once it’s done, take the next step. And the next. And the next. Until you arrive.”
“Remember – If you want advanced results, you must take advanced measures. Do MORE than what is expected of you, not LESS than what you are capable of.”
“More information rarely helps unless you are ready to act on it. The perfect plan doesn’t exist.”
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”
“Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”
“Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
“Stop comparing yourself to others. It’s the source of almost all unhappiness in life.”
“You always go through a period of insignificance before you become significant. 97% of the world quits what they’re doing during the ‘insignificance’ phase.”
“Forget about waiting to be ‘inspired’. Motion beats meditation. Force yourself to do ANYTHING that brings you a step closer to your goals.”
“The bar is low enough that the simple act of “showing-up” means something. And that’s where you start… by starting.”
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are that you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they’ve got planned for you? Not much.”
“All the significant battles are waged within the self.”
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the
something I can do.”
“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.”
“While you’re out there looking for motivational quotes to help you get going, someone else is creating a success story that they write motivational quotes about.”
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.” It’s in the *doing* that targets are hit and dreams are realized. People spend their lives looking for opportunity when they should really be rolling up their sleeves and *doing*.”
“If a job is difficult or unpleasant, do it immediately. The longer you wait, the more difficult and frightening it will become.”
“It is easier to become optimistic when you begin to take action. Any action is sufficient to begin to improve your outlook and your feelings of optimism. As action happens, solutions begin to appear.”
“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
“Decisions Change Your Actions.”
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”
“Earn What You Get. Being handed wealth seems like a sweet deal from the outside, but not one lesson is learned in that process. You add no value to the world. When you earn every cent or accolade you receive your self-worth is easily identified and you can enjoy the acquired experience.”
“It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
“Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.”
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. ”
“ACTION begins the process of achievement.”
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do, what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
“Dreams only come true if we wake up and go to work.”
“If you wait for inspiration to slap you into action, your work sessions will be few and far between.”
“Just nodding your head won’t row the boat.”
“The only way to “find out if it will work out” is to do it.”
“Understand that success is nothing more than a well-managed string of failures. See failure as a learning opportunity rather than a sign of incompetence or defeat. Fail fast and often.
“The only place that success comes before work is in a dictionary.”
“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
“The beginning is always today.”
“Procrastination is often misspelled as perfectionism.”
“Zen is not to think about god while peeling potatoes, it is only to peel the potatoes.”
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
“Having a goal and understanding the situation are not enough. You must have the courage to act, for only by actions can goals, desires, and beliefs be translated into realities.”
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
“Spending time trying to understand why you are a certain way only serves as a method of procrastination. Instead ignore the whys and take action.”
“Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you’ll make a living, if you work hard on yourself you can make a life.”
“Do the work: most of this is just that. Turning off distractions and getting the work done. ENJOY creating as much as you enjoy earning.”
“Movement Beats Meditation.”
“Energy is a result of passion. Show me a person that has energy and I’ll show you a person that has passion.”
“You’re not succeeding because you are THINKING too much about what you should do instead of DOING it!”
“How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice – now. Stop the excuses and procrastination. This is your life! From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.”
“You never fail. You only find ways that do not work. Failure can be an investment in your life when you take an attitude to learn in crisis.”
“Decide to MAKE YOUR MOVE. Make a decision today and then do this.”
“The decision to act keeps your power flowing because decision and action are very compatible to positive expression, while anxiety and action are incompatible.”
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
“Fear’s always going to be with you. Invite it on the car ride. Say, come on, we’re taking a trip. Come on fear you’re allowed in the car, but you have to sit in the back. And under no circumstances can you give directions, touch the radio, say anything. You can come along for the ride, but you have to shut up.”
“Sometimes before we can position ourselves to want the wildness of the future we first need to stop being scared of it.”
“Begin today; do not delay. Do not think it’s too difficult. Create the mood of excitement and start. Waiting for a plan that is right only holds you hostage.”
“The magic isn’t in the size of your actions, but in the relentlessness of them.”
“The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups – those based on asking people what they want – and following his own imagination. His modus was that people don’t know what they want until you provide them with it.”
“Stop planning and take a step forward.”
“Probably the most ominous challenge you are facing when it comes to running your own online business is perhaps the most obvious – you won’t actually do it.”
“You can’t be lazy and scatterbrained and build a company that’s highly effective and focused.”
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you had better start running.”
“We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.”
“”Nothing in life worth having or keeping comes easy. Tired, discouraged and emotionally spent as you may feel, I urge you to press on. Soon, you’ll see the strength to overcome was inside you all along.”
“Cause and effect. It’s the easiest equation in the world.”
“Every day we choose inaction over action it makes it harder to take action. We weaken ourselves. Every time we take action we become stronger.”
“Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel,
stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
“When you act you prove whether something will work or not. You take a step. Your eyes are on the path, not on the chaos surrounding it.”
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
“Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.”
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”
“This is why most adults end up so dull. They don’t do anything because it’s probably going to fail. They mistook early failures for a sign that they should stop trying.”
“Basically, to make thousands of dollars a week marketing information products on the Internet, like I do, you only need 3 things: a product to sell, people to sell it to, and a means of getting them to buy it.”
“If you do the work, you will see results.”
“Action Momentum: energy that comes from stringing together a series of successful actions”
“Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
“Your excuses will never be as interesting as the story of how you got it done.”
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things— to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
“The purpose of man is in action not thought.”
“People have no personal growth because they NEVER REALLY START. They just talk about starting. Get off your butt! Throw away your excuses and get it going! Remember, absolutely nothing happens until you start. You don’t have to get it right. You just have to get it going!”
“We merely use the label *defeat* to describe the fact that we have made the decision to stop trying.”
“Do stuff. Do anything. Do things that move you closer to a win.”
“Ideas are cheap. It’s implementation that creates the real value. Ideas by themselves are worthless. Plans are nothing . . . unless they are followed with action. An idea without a strategy, without action, is useless.”
“Find something to do that really inspires you, that keeps you up at night, that you simply love to do.”
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you discover will be yourself.”
“Dream it. Plan it. Do it.”
“You must quiet the voice inside your head that offers excuses for not taking action and getting out of your comfort zone.”
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
“Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.”
“To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary to both know and do.”
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
“Action is like a light turned on in a dark room of inaction. Every action you take, no matter how small, will build momentum. Soon you will find yourself in the habit of taking action and it will actually be HARDER not to act.”
“The longer you spend in inaction the easier it is to sit there.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Do what you need to do as quickly as possible so that you can enjoy what you want for as long as possible.
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
“Overcome fear by attacking it.”
“You have one life, one chance to do something with it. But if you don’t fail ever, or are afraid to fail, you’ll be forever ‘waiting’ until you have the perfect product, the perfect ‘system’, the perfect timing, etc. Forget ‘perfect’… JUST DO IT.”
“You can’t just be an information gatherer. That’s a mistake too many people make. Many folks invest enormous amounts of time and great sums of money in learning new facts and figures yet remain broke because they don’t put any of this into use.”
“My advice would be that if you have an idea for a product or a change in your business or a new direction to try – JUST START – and see what happens. Money is attracted to decision and speed because something is happening. Something is in motion, which is always better than stagnation.”
“There’s no reason to have a Plan B because it distracts from Plan A.”
“You don’t actually gain any real knowledge, perspective, and insight until you actually TRY the things you learn about.”
“Successful people don’t sit around waiting for everything to be ‘100 percent’ right or to be ‘absolutely sure’ they will succeed. They assess the odds. And if the odds are reasonably good, they strike out boldly and energetically. They don’t need absolute assurance because they realize life doesn’t provide any.”
“Action is no less necessary to us than thought.”
“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.”
“As one goes through life one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.”
“Discomfort causes growth.”
“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.”
“There is this myth of the genius entrepreneur that people perpetuate, and it’s wrong. It’s persistence and vision that matter.”
“Precept is a very good thing, but to my thinking an ounce of practical energy is worth any amount of precept without action.”
“The barrier between success is not something that exists in the physical world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.”
“Screw it, just get on and do it.”
“The majority don’t do it because they don’t try.”
“You are not waiting to live. You are waiting to act.”
“Next time you start to feel you don’t get enough hours in a day, try a ‘less planning, more doing’ approach and see how much more productive you can be.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
“Fear is always strongest before the first step.”
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
“You can’t do big things if you’re distracted by small things.”
“You don’t actually gain any real knowledge, perspective, and insight until you actually TRY the things you learn about.”
“Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
“If you want to write but are scared of making videos or podcasts when it comes to promoting your work, then just write, and forget the stuff you don’t like.”
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“Decide whether you simply want to live or if you want to win.”
“Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.”
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
“Unfortunately, many people who are waiting for their ships to come in have missed a very important element of the process. They haven’t sent any ships OUT.”
” NOW is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”
“There is plenty of time to do the things you need to do if you’ll just spend less time worrying you don’t have enough time and do them.”
“There are an infinite number of new opportunities. Actively seek them out, and position yourself to recognize and take advantage of them.”
“Put the damn book together! Apple’s Pages is a great tool to throw your first version together. (Microsoft Word if you’re the self-flagellating type.)”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable
combination for success.”
“To be active is the primary vocation of man.”
“There is only one proof of ability,—action.”
“Success should not be sought after. Instead, focus on becoming the best version of yourself, and success will follow.”
“Every minute you procrastinate on adding value to the world, someone out there continues to suffer because they aren’t getting your help. That makes you a big meanie, so stop procrastinating, and start taking action to help more people. Complete your solution-to-their-problems and get it out to the world.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ”
God’s gift to you is more talent and ability than you will ever use in one lifetime. Your gift to God is to develop and utilize as much of that talent and ability as you can, in this lifetime.
“Do something everyday that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
“When right action doesn’t work, it provides you information. Scientists know this well. Mostly because their failure rates are extraordinarily high. A good scientist sees more in his failures than his successes.”
“You don’t need to know if it will work (you probably can’t know), you need to try and find out.”
“Success is a process – it’s continuing to make gains each and every day. I never set out to break Lou Gehrig’s record. My goal was to be good and be available for the team every day, and in business, it’s the same approach.”
“Want more blog post ideas? Start writing blog posts, you’ll think of more. More business ideas? Start a business, you’ll think of more.
“The only way to overcome any kind of fear is actually to step into it.”
“Thinking alone will not get the job done. It will not enhance your relationships or earn you more income. You must take action and, if that does not work, you must persist until it does or persist in finding a new and better way.”
“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.” n
“Begin every day by doing the thing you fear most first. You’ll feel like a winner the rest of the day.”
“At the end of the day, it DOESN’T MATTER what “the economy” does, all that matters is what YOU do.”
“Success in business is a process, not a one time event.”
“The only thing that stops you from getting what you want in life is the BS story you tell yourself why you can’t.”
“Fear is always strongest before the first step.”
“Nothing will grow your business faster than taking complete responsibility for everything.”
“Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be
unhappy.”
“Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You’re measured by results only. Trade excuses and “trying” for results, and expect half-hearted results from half-hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Life’s easy when you live it the hard way… and hard if you try to live it the easy way.”
“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”
“Am I doing this to accomplish something, or to avoid something?” – Paul Myers
“There’s no perfect way to do things. There is however, a perfect way for you to do things.”
“Look for opportunities and TAKE them. Money loves speed. Just get the damn thing out there. Act fast and don’t think too much – just take the chance.”
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
“Resistance whispers, ‘Tomorrow.’. Resistance keeps the boat in the harbor, the canvas blank, the book pageless, the gym unused, the running shoes in the closet, the resume on the hard drive, and the dream in the heart and out of the hands.”
“People would do nothing, if they waited until they could do it so well that no one would find fault with what they have done.”
“The Law of Movement. Everything in the universe is moving. Absolutely nothing is at rest. You are moving ahead or going backwards in life. It’s either create or disintegrate. You are either getting richer or poorer.”
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
“When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.”
“Circumstances don’t make you. You make you.”
“Your greatest chance at success comes when you have the least steps to take in order to achieve your goal with excellence.”
“One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can’t get help from your friends or family. You’re finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.”
“Don’t hesitate. Seize the day. Quit vacillating. Stop with your excuses. Create something marvelously imperfect.”
“The action we commit ourselves to today is something that feels just a little scary, but mostly totally doable.”
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
“Opportunity is a blank canvas; to turn it into a masterpiece, you’ve got to work.”
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
“Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.”
“The reason most individuals do not achieve more is because they do not attempt more.”
“I can’t do everything, but I can do something. If we all did something. We could conquer anything.”
“It’s not rocket science. It’s persistence.”
“Few successes are achieved via a straight line, from point A to point B, from idea to fruition. Most successes are achieved in a zig-zag manner.”
“Never concentrate on minimums when it comes to effort and excellence. Do what it takes. As much as it takes. As long as it takes.”
“You Are Not ‘Waiting To Live’… You are waiting to act.”
“There’s just no quit among the most successful. They don’t make excuses, they make a way where there is no way… obsessively.”
“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.”
“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”
“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
“Possibility is where you decide it is.”
“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
“Books are great but personal experience is the champion of all teachers.”
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
“Happiness in life comes not from idleness but from working. Not working at a job you hate, but working at tasks you care about.”
“Over-planning is expensive, soul-sucking, and ultimately ineffective. Doing is cheap, effective, and tied to reality.”
“Every action you take, no matter how small, will build momentum. Soon you will find yourself in the habit of taking action and it will actually be HARDER not to act.”
“Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
“If you collect information without using it you’re only going to be frustrated.”
“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”
“Determination and persistence create paths invisible to those who give up. Never give up. Often, the winners are those that simply survived.”
“Every man is the son of his own works.”
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
“In the process of change, you will make mistakes. You will fall into old routines and “fall off the wagon.” If you realize that this is part of the process you won’t use one mistake as an excuse to quit. Pick up and start again.”
“But the truth is this: 99% of people never take action. Most people would rather just keep seeking out advice, because it makes them feel like they’re doing something.”
“Don’t Discount Your Own Experience. Rather than devaluing your own experience and overvaluing others’ realize that you are uniquely gifted and bring many valuable things to the table.”
“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”
“If you really look closely, most overnight success took a long time.”
The Power of Action: Knowing does not precede doing. The best way to be prepared for something is to start it.
“I find the best way to pursue what you want is, simply to start.”
“When the gap between what you say and what you do gets big enough, people stop listening.”
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.”
“The haves and the have-nots can often be traced to the dids and the did-nots.”
“All of us are willing to spend a little time and a little money looking for a shortcut now and then. A quicker, more effective way to lose weight, make friends, earn money and get clean, fresh breath. Sometimes, one of those shortcuts pays off and it reinforces our belief that there might just be a better way. It seems, though, that those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.”
“Sometimes the words organize themselves effortlessly on the page, and other times every sentence is a struggle.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“One of the most important truths about success is that it is a formula: 10 percent good ideas and 90 percent action.”
“We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.”
“The biggest detail I learned from dealing with my own depression is that it’s up to me to get myself out of it. The same is true with my business challenges. No one is coming to save me. It’s my job.”
“Risk takers never complain. They do.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
“Action cures fear.”
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”
“It’s truly the small, consistent action that will make the biggest difference.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
“Taking action creates possibilities that didn’t exist before.”
“Things are going to suck and you will feel like quitting. And you will want to quit. Do one thing… Don’t quit today. Quit tomorrow. Never quit today.”
“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”
“Your success lies in the hands of no-one else. Nobody is holding it behind their back, keeping it away from you as you as you frantically reach around their waist trying to grab it. You don’t need to connect with any ‘influencer’ in order to succeed. This is all on you. You can become the leader in your field. Never ever falter on that belief. You can do this entire thing on your own.”
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
“If you don’t want the competition to leave you in the dust, it’s imperative that you focus on taking action.”
“It doesn’t matter what your aim, there is nothing you can’t do if you just begin.”
“I believe that everyone can reclaim themselves…You have a very bad habit. You have to change it. If not now, then when?”
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
“Attitude predicts performance. If somebody is negative, their performance is going to be negative.”
“Thinking about it doesn’t mean you’ve done it.”
“He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”
“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
“The more things you do, the more you can do.”
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”
“Act to become.”
“It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”
“Success in Internet marketing comes from action…not from theory or trying to learn every last trick in the book or mastering dozens of obscure technical tricks.”
“You learn a business by doing the business. You don’t learn a business by learning about the business.”
“There’s no such thing as a perfectionist. There is literally nothing you have ever done that is perfect or will ever do that is perfect. You’ve just found a delusional, yet proud way to hide your cowardice.”
“There’s no silver bullet. You can’t depend on shortcuts or connections. Don’t fool yourself into thinking this doesn’t apply to you. Hard work is essential”
“Winners are “ordinary people, doing ordinary things, extraordinarily well.”
“One small step is better than no step at all.”
“”Don’t be discouraged at the outset. It takes time to build up from nothing.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
“Nobody knows how to do it. You just start a band.”
“We always say, ‘the universe rewards action, not thinking.’ Basically, you do need to do something, because people over-think and they over-prepare.”
“I can almost guarantee you that you are exaggerating the pain of potential “failure” and underrating the amount of progress you’ll make by just trying.”
“That’s the greatest difference between those who live their dreams and those who WISH for stuff. Hard work.”
“Reading ten books about meditation isn’t as useful as ten minutes spent meditating. You’ve got to do the thing!”
“The only thing exceptional about successful people is their ability to do the work.”
“Stop trying to sell and start trying to SERVE. Identify what people really need and aim to provide it for them. Your
focus should be to HELP PEOPLE. This is the real nature of
making money from home or anywhere else. Do this and you
won’t have to sell. Customers will beat a path to your door.”
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
“Not to be pessimistic, but you are going to die. That is a fact. Hopefully later rather than sooner, but eventually none of your worries and fears will matter anymore. So why be scared to fail?
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
“Only YOU can decide to be motivated. Nobody else has that power. Accomplishing your goals begins with your decision to take action. Yes, fear and lack of confidence can creep into your mindset. And, yes, those things can extinguish your motivation. Toss them out. Choose to be positive. Then take action. You’ll find that taking even a single small step toward accomplishing a goal will motivate you to take the next step.”
“Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination. If you expect perfection, you will never finish.”
“Inconsistent diligence is still diligence.”
“Optimism and enthusiasm are essential. Fear and pessimism will never inspire greatness.”
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
“The rewards which you will receive in this life, material or psychic, will not come to you because of your potential but, rather, because of your performance.”
“We’re builders! If we go too long without constructing something we die.”
“When I’m feeling unmotivated, I know I need to get rid of the things stopping me, I don’t need to ADD anything to my life.”
“Change before you have to.”
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”
“Life is about execution rather than purpose.”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it become a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.”
“Consistent action leads to massive results. The positive results lead to self belief. That self belief causes you to take more action. That action leads to more results, greater potential and towards success.”
“You’re not going to see your dreams come true if you don’t put wings, legs and arms, hands and feet on ‘em.”
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
“The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.”
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
“Don’t wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.”
“Enjoy life. Treat it as an adventure. Care passionately about the outcome, but keep it in perspective. Things are seldom as bleak as they seem when they are going wrong – or as good as they seem when they are going well. Lighten up. You’ll live longer.”
“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.”
“You get to the top of any business by getting started, and a sense of urgency about getting started is necessary.”
“Worries, regrets, and complaints solve nothing. They change nothing. Rather they undermine your health, your social environment, and your quality of life.”
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
“The only person in charge of getting you the attention your work deserves is you.”
“Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.”
“On any significant quest, there always comes a point in the journey when you have to step off the beaten path into the wilds of the unknown. Choosing to stay on the beaten path isn’t a quest; it’s just a traffíc jam. Notice where your comfort zone is, and step out of it.”
“The more powerful and intelligent your actions are, the greater your results. So in order to get the results you want, you must become an action-orientated person.”
“Despite the simplicity of this concept there is a perpetual shortage of people who excel at putting ideas into action RIGHT NOW.”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
“It’s a serious mistake to allow yourself to get caught up in the “what if” and “how to” trap – attempting to project all problems and solutions in advance of taking action. The reality is that no one can ever hope to know all the problems in advance, let alone all the solutions.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“It’s not the specific actions you take that make you rich as much as it is that you take a lot of actions. It’s important to do things now, not someday.”
“Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
“If we don’t stay focused, our ideas don’t get executed.”
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
“If you are distressed by anything internal, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to the view you have of that thing. How you view anything is a power you can revoke at any moment.”
“It’s perfectly O.K. to do things at your own pace, as long as your pace includes taking action and implementing.”
“All the time you’re wasting on anxiety of whether or not it stinks? Put it out. See if it stinks. Then if it does, fix it.”
“You never forget anything you learn on your own. All secondary experiences may easily be forgotten”.
“Fear steals more from your life than the things you fear ever could.”
“The art of life lies in getting things done.”
“If something doesn’t scare us, if something doesn’t challenge us, it doesn’t change us.”
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
“Your dreams aren’t just going to be handed to you. It takes many little actions to get there. Take it one hour at a time. Make your goal not to give up for just one hour.”
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
“The best way to get started is to get started. Life rewards action… not reaction. Wait for nothing.”
“It’s choice—not chance—that determines your destiny.”
“The outcome is never truly certain. Start anyway. There are always obstacles along the road. Keep going anyway. Move forward despite the fear. That’s the secret to life!”
“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
“Taking action is the real difference between the super-successful and the wannabes.”
“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
“Change will happen because you make it happen.”
“If I persist, nothing can stop me.”
“Get it going, then get it right.”
“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.”
“Nothing happens by itself… It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to MAKE it come your way, by your own exertions.”
“Keep moving forward. Action is the oxygen of success. You have to keep hitting those singles and doubles to stay in the game of life, because if you’re at bat long enough, that perfect pitch eventually will come across the plate. And that’s when you have to be ready to hit it out of the park.”
“There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time we have any power over.”
“Focus on short bursts of productivity instead of being productive 24/7.”
“If we deliberately seek-out opportunities when we’re not going to be at our best, eventually we can be at our best in those circumstances.”
“Get started. Until you actually get started, your goals are just dreams. Don’t put it off any longer, take action today.”
“There are those of us who unfortunately say, ‘Well, I want to be a star!’ (long pause) That’s way out there in the ether somewhere. ‘I want to be a working actor.’ You can pull that off.”
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
“I asked for strength and God gave me dificulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help. I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities… I received nothing I wanted, I received everything I needed.”
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
“See the job. Do the job. Avoid the misery.”
“The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine.”
“I’ve come to realize that perfectionism is the smart person’s version of Fear of Failure.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”
“God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.”
“JUST GET IN THE GAME – whatever it takes.”
“Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events. You decide to walk to Cleveland. So you take a first step in the right direction. That’s starting. You spend the rest of the day walking toward Cleveland, one step at a time, picking your feet up and putting them down. At the end of the day, twenty miles later, you stop at a hotel. And what happens the next morning? Either you quit the project or you start again, walking to Cleveland. In fact, every step is a new beginning.”
“The easiest way to become something special is also the fastest: Just start doing it. Don’t wait for the “right” time. Don’t worry about not being qualified. And don’t worry about getting paid for it. Just start doing it.”
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”
“Do it now! Whatever it is you have been putting off, do it. This is your life, it’s not a dress rehearsal. Read the obituaries in today’s newspaper and realize that everyone whose name is in there thought they had another day.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself.”
“That stagnation, low-grade frustration, and perpetual exhaustion comes from your refusal to act.”
“It’s easy to give too much credit to the thinking mind. The thinking mind is ‘ ight’. Action isn’t so obvious. Action forces us to risk being wrong.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
“The haves and the have-nots can often be traced to the dids and the did-nots.”
“There are hundreds of possible choices. And no-one masters them all.”
“The benefit of death is you know not to waste life living someone else’s choices.”
“Ideas, preparation, knowledge, and wisdom are all but useless without action, because action is the starting point of all progress.”
“You can be truly anything you want. When a person really does what he wants to do, this is the opportunity. It’s not a risk. This is where you find your power.”
“You’ll never have a perfect business and you’ll never be totally ‘done.’ Deal with it.”
“Money doesn’t come about as the result of thoughts in the metaphysical realm, it comes as the result of actions in the physical domain.”
“It’s hard to see the possibility of success if you’ve only experienced failure. Yet it’s often only after a number of failures that we have a chance at success.”
“Make something great. Not because it will sell. Not because it’s on the test. Not because it’s your job. Merely because you can.”
“Each day is a new battle to say yes to what matters and say no to what doesn’t. Focus is a practice.”
“Underachievers’ favorite words are “next time,” “tomorrow,” and “eventually.”
“Stop trying to sell and start trying to SERVE. Identify what people really need and aim to provide it for them. Your focus should be to HELP PEOPLE. This is the real nature of making money from home or anywhere else. Do this and you won’t have to sell. Customers will beat a path to your door.”
“Be OK with what you ultimately can’t do, because there is so much you CAN do.”
“When it comes to taking action, the hardest thing for most people to do, is DO.”
“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
“Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
“You must do the opposite and be an ACTION TAKER. Do. Get outside of your comfort zone. Avoid self-sabotage. Fail forward. Those who don’t take personal responsibility and don’t take action will be in the same place 12 months from now…only older.”
“It is simply the very refusal to quit itself that actually distinguishes the great marketers from the ‘also-rans’.“
“It comes down to one simple decision. Either get busy living, or get busy dying.”
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”
“You are responsible for exactly who, what and where you are in life. That will be just as true this time next year. Situations aren’t important. How you react to them is. You have to play it where it lies.”
“(On writing:)“Like most things on the planet, thinking about doing it is a lot worse than simply sitting down and doing it. The writing wasn’t hard to do, you just need to plant ass in seat and go from there.”
“Beat this into your head. Anything worth having takes time to get it.”
“Slug it out one inch at a time day-by-day.”
“Stop talking about what you’re GOING to do and do it. Stop gabbing about who you’re GOING to be and be it.”
“Start before you’re ready. Do the work! A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.”
“The solution to every problem is action.”
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
“Perfection is highly desirable. But nothing man-made or man-designed is, or can be, absolutely perfect. So to wait for the perfect set of conditions is to wait forever.”
“Right action is pushing toward the thing you normally avoid. Right action is moving into what is uncomfortable or what scares you. Right action is mindful.”
“Nobody achieves greatness except through intense practice over a long period of time.”
“There’s a satisfaction that comes from doing your best in less than optimal circumstances. It makes it easier to succeed in all circumstances.”
“The antidote to worry is purposeful action.”
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
“Face your fears. That’s how you conquer them. Don’t dismiss them; face them. Say, “Here’s what I’m afraid of. I wonder what I could do to change that.”
“The only thing we can’t do is nothing.”
“It turns out that getting less lazy, more brave—more clear about your fears, your work and your mission—are all easier than getting more talented.”
“Ideas are not achievements.”
“Discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
“You must believe you can accomplish your goals first and foremost. Developing the self confidence to know you can achieve anything is the first step in realizing your dreams.”
“This whole process of getting discovered and becoming famous. It’s not your call. Your job is to show up.”
“Few success stories occur because the person is a super-genius. Almost all success stories are based on perseverance and a commitment and consistency to doing the work and believing in themselves.”
“Learning comes from doing.”
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”
“Whether today is sunny, wet, snowy, grey, smoggy, cold or warm where you are now… …it’s still the PERFECT day to start changing your life to follow your passion.”
“The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you don’t work.”
“The formula is quite simple: The more action you take, the more results you get.”
“The scarcity in our world is in initiative, not the resources to produce.”
“Just showing up and keeping your promises will be enough to beat most.”
“The difference between a hero and not is taking an action.”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.”
“You have less time than you think. We all do. Why then are you waiting to fulfill your desire? If you do not start today, then when will you start? You will never start unless you start NOW. Commit yourself heart and soul.”
“Always have lofty explicit goals and visualize them intensely. Assume the attitude that if you don’t reach your goals, you will literally die! This type of gun-to-your-head forced focus… survival pressure mindset, no matter how briefly used, stimulates your mind, forces you to use your time effectively… and illuminates new ways of getting things done.”
“The quickest way to be unique is to stop comparing yourself to others.”
“I learned that all things come to those who wait – provided they hustle while they wait.”
“You need to believe that you are capable of doing great things, of living an above-average life, and of making an extraordinary impact on the world. You won’t achieve this by thinking of yourself as a normal Joe-Schmoe.”
“Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which carried its owner over even one inch of ground.”
“When you understand that, every moment matters, you have to bring every ounce of energy you have to the present. It’s not easy to live this way, but the more you try, the more fulfilling and meaningful every moment becomes.”
“I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.”
“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
“Thinking outside the box isn’t about being smarter than anyone else, it’s about not being scared to actually ACT on those ideas.”
“Do what works for you. Don’t apologize. Don’t have fear. There are a million paths to success.”
“The pain that comes with action is acute, scars you, and makes you grow. The pain that comes from inaction is low-grade, softens you, and decays your soul.”
“It’s hard to see the possibility of success if you’ve only experienced failure. Yet it’s often only after a number of failures that we have a chance at success.”
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.”
“A trying time is no time to quit trying.”
“The outcome is never truly certain. Start anyway. There are always obstacles along the road. Keep going anyway. Move forward despite the fear. That’s the secret to life!”
“You have to start where you are. Anyone can unleash their greatness.”
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
“Finally, you must act. The New Testament writer said, “Faith without works is dead.” Until you act you’re not committed and belief is not cemented. As world-class mountain climber W.H. Murray wrote, “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.”
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life.”
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“You just have to start.”
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
“Do the action, then tell me if your real motivation doesn’t come from that.”
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“Nothing Can Take The Place Of Action.”
“Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy… but where are they.”
“What if I fail? Oh but my darling, What if you fly?”
“Laziness is the easiest way to a hard life.”
“Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.”
“Life is about execution rather than purpose.”
“Make success chase you, not the other way around.”
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“Action is beautiful because of the mess it leaves. The zig-zagging path. The scarred face. The broken heart. The true confidence that can only come with experience.”
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
“Our fatal mistake is waiting to be motivated before we take action”
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”
“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.”
“Stop thinking you’re special in your fear of failing. Don’t let fear win.”
“Successful people take the long term view. 98% of the world looks for short term gratification.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.”
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own, and you know what you know.
And you are the one who’ll decide where you’ll go.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“It’s OK to only see things your way and insist on doing them as you want. In fact having that attitude will get you to success quicker than if you listen to the advice of other people.”
“The ability to JUST GET THINGS DONE supersedes intelligence, talent, and connections in determining the speed of advancement in anything.”
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
“Never confuse motion with action.”
“A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a ‘doer’!”
“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.”
“It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.”
“Our tragic mistake: we believe that we must understand something before taking action when, in fact, we can only fully understand something after taking action.”
“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.”
“Whenever you find yourself anxious or upset about a business or personal situation, it will be remarkably helpful to think about a reality of life that seems to escape people who are under stress: Things change!”
“If you do nothing else but focus EVERY DAY on getting something done to move your business forward, you won’t be able to stop your eventual success.”
“The perfectionist is doomed to starve in the midst of plenty.”
“Perseverance is nothing more than persistent action – continuing to take action in the face of massive rejection, massive disappointment, and massive frustration.”
“If you only do what you know you can do – you never do very much.”
“Imperfect Traction Beats Perfect Inaction.”
“Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
“Perseverance is the ultimate action tool, a tool so powerful that it can overcome almost any kind of adversity.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“There is nothing wrong with affirmations provided we remember two important rules. First, we should never allow an affirmation to replace action. Feeling better is no substitute for doing better. And second, whatever we affirm must be the truth.”
“Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things in the world. Expect victory and make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in the business of life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.”
“Do what you need to do as quickly as possible so that you can enjoy what you want for as long as possible.”
“Notice what happens to your motivation when you spend a day not taking action – it’s gone.”
“Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work; but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.”
“Be willing to bear some discomfort. Every journey toward a goal has some inherent unpleasantness. If you are in the sales industry, rejection and failure are inevitable. In fact, in just living, rejection and failure are inevitable.
“Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.”
“Your life would be better if you took the action you’ve been avoiding.”
“Understand that success is nothing more than a well-managed string of failures. See failure as a learning opportunity rather than a sign of incompetence or defeat. Fail fast and often.”
“First, just start. Start somewhere. Start anywhere. Just start!”
“Action is everything. Inaction is killed instantly by action.”
“The antidote to worry is purposeful action.”
“The Secret to Getting More Done Than You Ever Thought Possible 1. Make a list of what you must finish. 2. Do those things.”
“You don’t have to be ready. Just go.”
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
“In order to get something done, you must first get started. In order to complete the project, you must do everything that needs to get done. It’s not rocket science. It’s persistence.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“Fortunes are not accumulated with single master strokes, but with relentless focus on less-than-glamorous reality.”
“Ideas are rarely found by thinking. They’re found by doing.”
“Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ”
“It doesn’t matter what your aim, there is nothing you can’t do if you just begin.”
“The formula for attaining mastery in anything is pretty simple. Do stuff, pay close attention to your mistakes, and do stuff some more.”
“Fear literally doesn’t exist until you create it.”
“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
“Stop talking and start doing.”
“Stop expecting to see a clear path to the end. You don’t need to know where you’ll end to know where to start.”
“The man who does not make mistakes does not usually make anything.”
“Don’t let information gathering be your procrastination. Don’t let planning become your procrastination.”
“Even one day of inaction can create a resistance to acting.”
“Find out what works, and then do more of it. Focus first on doing the right things, and then on doing things right by mastering details. A few basic moves produce most results and income.”
“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
“You probably don’t need yet another new idea. Better to figure out what to do with the ones you’ve got.”
“Working for someone else gives you little chance to make a fortune. By owning your own business, you only have to be good to become wealthy.”
“You simply must dispel the idea that everyone else has it better than you. Life is challenging for everyone. Just because people put on a happy face in public doesn’t mean their ‘inner/private life’ is enviable.”
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
“Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.”
“Small consistent action beats single Herculean leaps (almost) every time.”
“Action will destroy your procrastination.”
“Don’t wait for inspiration. Inspiration is fickle and stingy.”
“You are never given a dream without also being given
the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“When you’re moving fast you don’t have time to over-think the project.”
“So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win.”
“Get Ahead by Getting Started. If you get started today on achieving your goals you will automatically be ahead of any competition that waits until tomorrow.”
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put this plan into action.”
“There’s nothing wrong with gaining motivation from outside sources, but at some point, you’re going to have to motivate yourself.”
“Every action you take, no matter how small, will build momentum. Soon you will find yourself in the habit of taking action and it will actually be HARDER not to act.”
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step…”
“Adversity, which no one ever wants, is very often the thing that provokes you into becoming someone greater than you ever imagined you could be.”
“You can’t hope for the best. You have to do the best.”
“Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door.”
“Bold action may always scare you, as it should, but never as much as the alternative: timidity. Inaction is the cancer that will eat away at your soul until it is gone. That’s scarier than anything.”
“More often than not, being brave means doing it scared.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“No amount of positive thinking, studying, reading books, attending webinars (although these things are important) will EVER substitute your taking action.”
“If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you’ll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.”
“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
“Whatever you’re doing; give it all you got, leave your mark, do whatever it takes, push it, pull it or pound it!”
“Procrastination is inaction. It’s also a vicious cycle, because the more you procrastinate on something, the more paralyzed you feel about moving forward. The antidote to procrastination is action. Take some action step today. You’ll feel better and will be another few steps closer to your goal.”
“There is real power in just getting started. In fact, momentum is one of the strongest forces on the planet.” – Eric Aronson
“Failure isn’t final; you can always overcome your mistakes and become a stronger, better you because of them.”
“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.”
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
“It’s almost NEVER a lack of knowledge that’s the problem… It’s A Lack Of EXECUTION.”
“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”
“Action = Competence = Confidence”
“Action appears to reveal paths. On closer inspection, though, it is the path.”
“Only by doing the work can you see the results. Learning and listening can help if you’re already putting in work, but alone they will not change your life.”
“The nature of every new project or goal is it is stopped dead in its tracks until you break its inertia. You can think about it, ponder over it until the 12th of never, but you can not complete your project until you start it moving.”
“The Secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Starting is the scariest, hardest, most horrifying part.”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
“The single biggest reason that people fail in life is that they never take effective action.”
“The only things that stand between people and what they want from life, is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
“Without action, knowledge only leads to frustration.”
“It doesn’t matter if anyone reads it, buys it, sponsors it or shares it. It matters that you show up.”
“We will either find a way, or make one.”
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”
“We usually don’t know what the best option is. Maybe it’s best to wait, maybe it’s best to act. We can’t know, but if we set our default to action we’ll win in the long run.”
“Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
“You start by ignorantly trying. Through failing you figure out what you need to learn about and get better at.”
“Successful entrepreneurs don’t wait for clarity to take action, they use action to find clarity.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“Your obstacles are yours to face. It doesn’t matter how they compare to the obstacles in history or those of your peers. It’s a waste of time to consider anything except how you will overcome them.”
“A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.”
“Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts he is never the same… the moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.”
“You don’t have to operate from passion to begin with. You operate from necessity. So, the first passion is to survive. To somehow make it. Then start to build from there with something that you could find to do even if it is distasteful. You don’t have to love what you do. Just love the chance or the opportunity to begin the process. Because where you begin is not where you have to end a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now.”
“Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.”
“It’s hard to get ahead when you’re chasing someone else’s dream.”
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.”
“God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.”
“Anyone can WANT something. Few will actually take action on it.”
“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
“When no one else believes in you, sometimes you have to go it alone.”
“The failure to act is often the product of inner, emotional resistance than external resistance. To move forward you must give up your excuses. Do not capitulate to external resistance, AND resolve your own internal resistance. A high performer has no margin for such weakness.”
“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
“Problems are in your life so that you can discover potentials that you didn’t even know you had.”
“Action is the simplest way to avoid procrastination. Get up and throw yourself into the battle. You must know your #1 priority and attack it with great energy.”
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible.’ “
“What if the only thing standing in the way of your greatness was that you just had to go after everything obsessively, persistently, and as though your life depended on it?”
“Comfort causes depression and anxiety.”
“It’s really that simple. In order to get something done, you must first get started. In order to complete the project, you must do everything that needs to get done.”
“Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.”
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
“Be your own cheerleader. You must cheer yourself on and push yourself further. There will be many days nobody supports you but yourself.”
“There is no such thing as failure. Every action produces a result.”
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
“Consistency makes creativity easier.”
“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
“Ideas don’t happen to you, you find them!”
“Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.”
“The only ones who fear failure are those who have never tasted it.”
“With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.”
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
“How many do I have to do? Why would you ask such a stupid question? As much as it takes to transform your crap life from where it is to where you want it to be.”
“Ignore the rules. There are no rules. There are no regulations. You get out and you do what you need to do because you believe in what you’re doing.”
“The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.”
“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”
“While almost everybody is looking for the next magic bullet, the next shiny object…the DOERS just keep on DOING.”
“If more information were the answer, we’d all be billionaires with 6 pack abs.”
“The trick is to learn from your mistakes. Just do your best to limit your risk. Focus every day, keep trying, learn what works, and don’t torture yourself when you take a wrong turn. Just notice it, learn from it, and change your approach.”
“Anxiety is usually caused by lack of control, organization, preparation and action.”
“People (you and me) don’t fail for lack of a plan. We have plans, formulas, roadmaps, blueprints— you name it. Anything you want to achieve, a plan already exists. That’s not the issue. The issue is persistent, consistent action. Period.”
“Action is the solution and the cure to our predicaments.”
“The ability to bounce back from disappointment and even disaster counts more than education, more than experience, and more than training.”
“Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear. – Isolate your fear and then take constructive action. Inaction – doing nothing about a situation – strengthens fear and destroys confidence.”
“Life is not what we expected. Life is almost all unexpected, actually.”
“Expertise comes from knowledge and experience — not from a piece of paper.”
“Take action to grow in confidence. As you take the action in tiny steps, your confidence grows over time. It’s gradual and we improve 1% every day.
“Action motivates.”
“There is real power in just getting started. In fact, momentum is one of the strongest forces on the planet. For instance, a standing locomotive can be held in place by a small block of wood. However, once that same locomotive gains momentum, it can crash through a solid brick wall—it becomes unstoppable. You are the same way. As soon as you get momentum behind your actions, you too will be unstoppable.”
“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”
“Success depends on what you do, not what you know.”
“I found that I could find the energy…that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it…I can do it… I can do it!”
“There is one thing that 99 percent of ‘failures’ and ‘successful’ folks have in common—they all hate doing the same things. The difference is that successful people do them anyway.”
“After you get the ball rolling, you’ll build confidence and things will continue to snowball and become easier and easier. Kill your fear by taking action and then build on that.”
“One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.”
“Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes.”
“Checking email, Facebook, and Twitter upon waking up sets you up for a day of reactivity. staring the day with your own creative labor sets you up for a day of action.”
“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.”
“What we see as courageousness is really just a habit of taking action. Of doing things even though we’re scared to do them.”
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses
to quit.”
“Of all the people on the planet, you talk to yourself more than anyone. Make sure you are saying the right things.”
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
“Instead of finding your passion, and then getting to work, get to work, and you might find your passion.” r
“The reason that guru is such a popular word is because charlatan is so hard to spell.”
“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”
“You might struggle, and that’s okay. Everyone does. But if you persist, nothing can stop you.”
“The art of non-compliance is the art of self-direction.”
“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”
“You must be good at one of two things: planting in the spring, or begging in the fall.”
“Ideas without action are worthless.”
“The answers are in the doing.”
“Forget about a quick fix. Put in the work, learn the skills. Don’t take shortcuts.”
“It is only in the flow of action that life can make sense. There are no abstract ideals there, just life.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“You don’t have to be the best at anything to get started. There are people ahead of you and people behind you. There are people who would love to be able to do what you are already good at. There are people who would like to have the skills you already possess and would love to learn how to do it. – Dairrell Ham
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
“Pick something and work it.”
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
“Do the thing, and you will have power.”
“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”
“The most significant factor (or force) that limits our capacity to perform is the six-inches of gray matter between our ears.”
“Just because you failed in the past doesn’t mean the outcome will be the same the second time around. If anything, past failure can assist with future success, because of the lessons you learn when you fall and pick yourself up. Keep trying, failure is not final.”
“You don’t know where you’ll be a year from now, but you can push in a certain direction.”
“The only way to become what you want to be is by doing that thing. If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be a singer, sing. If you want to be in better shape, get yourself to the gym. The best way to become something is also the fastest and the easiest, just start doing it.”
“Creating a plan is taking action. Refining past the point of necessity is inaction.”
“When you’re procrastinating and avoiding action, ask yourself this question. Are you being lazy or are you talking negatively to yourself?”
“If regrets about yesterday’s decisions and actions help you do better work today, then they’ve served a useful purpose.”
“If someone says they’ll try to do something, it’s a safe bet they won’t accomplish it.”
“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. ‘Nothing’ is the worst thing that can happen to us.”
“Inaction doesn’t attract anything except more inaction.”
“There’s no power in the future. All the power is NOW. In the NOW, there’s a choice.”
“Create the things that you wish existed.”
“Do what you’re scared of and you’ll look back afterwards and you’ll see you grew right then.”
“Activity is God’s medicine; the highest genius is willingness and ability to do hard work. Any other conception of genius makes it a doubtful, if not a dangerous possession.”
“Information isn’t what’s scarce; it’s the willingness to do something with it.”
“When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
“Our best tool for procrastination is over-thinking and rationalization.”
“Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”
“Discomfort does not equal unhappiness. Rather, it is a vital signal that your soul is ready for growth.”
“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
“Hard work is never a waste. No one will say, “It is too bad he was such a good, hard worker.” But if you aren’t they will surely say, “It’s too bad he was so lazy – he could have been so much more!” Hard work will leave a grand legacy. Give it your all on your trip around the earth. You will do a lot of good and leave a terrific legacy.”
“To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone.”
“Thinking doesn’t make things happen. ACTION is what changes your situation.”
“Whatever you desire to achieve, start it today. Take some action in the direction you want to go. Then take another, and another. Action has power and decisiveness in it. Action gives us enthusiasm, builds our confidence and encourages us to go further. Success requires and is based on action. Do it.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“There comes a time in your life when you realize that if you stand still, you will remain at this point forever. You realize that if you fall and stay down, life will pass you by.”
“The pain that comes with action is acute, gives you scars, and makes you grow. The pain that comes from inaction is low-grade, makes you soft, and makes you decay.”
“Taking action now is the best thing you do. You literally create new universes of possibilities when you start building something.”
“Life is short, and you don’t want to let it pass you by. So, Think Big … and make your dreams come true.”
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
“We’d achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.”
“The failure to act is much more often the product of inner, emotional resistance than external resistance. To move forward you must give up your story, whether it is excuses about your childhood, lack of education, your “bad luck”, your unsupportive family, your low metabolism, where you live, etc.”
“You ATTRACT when you ACT.”
“There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.”
“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.”
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.”
“Experience is the best teacher, but it’s best to avoid all the mistakes we can and learn from others.”
“Start, fail, learn from the failures. It’s way better than waiting until you’re ‘ready.’”
“Success is not an Accident!”
“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts.”
“The harsh truth is that YOU need to take responsibility for your failures, successes, and lack of action. That is the number one reason people never get what they want – No personal responsibility.”
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”
“No amount of dreams or goals – by themselves – will ever get you to where you want to be. They are COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS if you don’t take action.”
“In my experience, there is no such thing as luck.”
“We all start in the same place: no money, no resources, no contacts, no experience. The difference is that some people — the winners — choose to start anyway.”
“You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.”
“Doing something right now is more important than doing it perfectly.”
“Avoiding failure by not taking action guarantees failure.”
“As the years have passed, I have become increasingly convinced that action is perhaps the single biggest factor when it comes to determining how an individual’s life plays out”
“Nothing happens by itself… It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.”
“Knowing simply isn’t enough. Knowledge in action is really the only thing that brings results.”
“You Will Never Win If You Never Begin”
“It’s not what you CAN do that counts; it’s what you actually DO.”
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
“You need less input and more output.”
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don’t have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, or take new classes.”
“If you don’t the do work — the real work — nothing else matters.”
“No matter how much you might feel like you are struggling, never give up. Never, ever, ever give in. Keep moving towards your vision. Never stand still. Believe in yourself.”
“The proper way to do it is to DO it.”
“Motivation will beat mere talent every time.”
“Getting started is more important than becoming an expert.”
“Action begets action.”
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
“In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”
“Most people give up before the rewards.”
“When you do that which you fear, the death of fear is certain.”
“We must persist in the task and one day it will become easier, not because the task itself has become easier, but because we have learned to master the task.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“There are only seven days in a week – and someday isn’t one of them.”
“Persistence makes a lot of things possible.”