Strike with Decisive Action Quotes
Ideas are cheap and everywhere; action is rare. The man who moves now, before conditions are perfect, laps everyone still preparing to start. This Execution path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on taking decisive action. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future. Act now, without delay.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
“Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!”
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
“Step by step and the thing is done.”
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
“Forget yourself and start to work.”
“You can choose to live an extraordinary life today, or you can keep waiting for the perfect time.”
“Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”
“Do not wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
“Well begun is half done.”
“If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it: teach yourself to be impatient.”
“This feeling of when I'm ready, deep in your heart you know it, and all the rest of it is just making excuses.”
“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.”
“If you have a task, do it at once.”
“Start before you're ready.”
“A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”
“Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it's important to you and you want to do it eventually, just do it and correct course along the way.”
“The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.”
“The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”
“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.”
“The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.”
“You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.”
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”
“While we had no experience and no mentors and no product and no money and no network, we had one good idea. And that was enough to get started.”
“If you have a dream, don't just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
“Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.”
“The earlier you start, the more time you have to mess up.”
“Any time is a good time to start a company.”
“You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.”
“I truly believe in vocational training. There are job opportunities in a lot of fields that don't require a four-year degree. Just put the business plan together, and just get started. Start small and make it work.”
“Transformation is not a future event; it's a present-day activity.”
“People don't take opportunities because the timing is bad, the financial side unsecure. Too many people are overanalyzing. Sometimes you just have to go for it.”
“Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.”
“My advice for anyone thinking of starting their own business is, above all, don't wait. If you get an idea in the shower in the morning, try to make it the next day.”
“To any entrepreneur: If you want to do it, do it now. If you don't, you're going to regret it.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.”
“Put your ass where your heart wants to be.”
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.”
