Feeling frustrated that you haven't reached your goals even with complete, detailed planning?
Planning is an important part of achieving our goals (no question about it - or we are just going to hit the air for nothing) but we should not forget that it is not only the factor....most often, our INACTION causes many of our goals/aspirations/ideas to fail or not even given the fighting chance to start with. Sometimes we try at the start but we stop at the slightest difficulty.
Here are some of inspirational quotes that can remind us about the importance of taking action and hustling and ignite us to TAKE ACTION NOW!
1. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
2. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.’ – Stephen King
3. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”-- Peter Marshall
4. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” - Tony Robbins
5. "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It'd 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." - Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
6. “Have a bias for action.” – Bo Sanchez
7. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” -- Zig Ziglar
8. "The secret of getting ahead is starting. The secret of getting started is breaking your tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain
9. “An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” - Lao Tzu
10. “Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.” - Vaclav Havel
11. “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” - Thomas Jefferson
12. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” - Herbert Spencer
13. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” - John F. Kennedy
14. “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.” - Tony Robbins
15. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” - Confucius
16. “The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
17. “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.” - Norman Vincent Peale
18. “The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.” - Confucius
19. “Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” - W. Clement Stone
20. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” - Bruce Lee
21. “Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
22. "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." -Leonardo da Vinci
23. "Nothing will work unless you do." -Maya Angelou
24. “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle” – Ross Simmonds
25. “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.” Michael Jordan
26. “Ideas are shit. Execution is the game.” Gary Vaynerchuk
27. “It’s easy to dream about it … Much harder to execute it ….Work!” – Gary Vaynerchuk
28. “You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
29. “The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic, and power that is likely to flow from it.” – Robert Ringer
30. “The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.” – Paul Hogan
31. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” -Estee Lauder
32. “Don’t think about making art. Just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” - Andy Warhol
33. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” - Herb Kelleher, Co-founder of Southwest Airlines
34. “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” – Roald Dahl, “My Uncle Oswald”
35. “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” -Vince Lombardi
36. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”– Theodore Roosevelt
37. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle
38. "When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work." -- George Bernard Shaw
39. "God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." -- J.G. Holland
40. "Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still." -- Chinese proverb
41. “You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.” ―Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not For Sale
42. “God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.” - St. Augustine
43. “Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.” - Benjamin Disraeli
44. “We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.” - Charlotte Bunch
45. “Well done is better than well said.” - Benjamin Franklin
46. “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.” - Dale Carnegie
47. “Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.” - Anthony Robbins
48. “An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.’ - Arnold Glasow
49. “I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” - Gilbert K. Chesterton
50. “If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.” - Mario Andretti
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