Inspiration. Motivation. Perspiration.
Most pages of this site feature a random action quote appearing on the right side of the page. But if you really need an extended kick-in-the-butt, you can spend some time here going through all of the quotes in one location. I visit this section frequently, so don't feel like you're the only one needing inspiration from time to time.
Check back often as I'm adding new ones regularly. The page below displays quotes in the order I've added them. Enjoy.
“What if I fail? Oh but my darling, What if you fly?”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“Your life would be better if you took the action you’ve been avoiding.”
"If you do nothing else but focus EVERY DAY on getting something done to move your business forward, you wont be able to stop your eventual success."
“Life is about execution rather than purpose.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“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.”
“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.” - Malcolm Gladwell
“Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which carried its owner over even one inch of ground.”
“Information isn’t what’s scarce; it’s the willingness to do something with it.”
“Without action, knowledge only leads to frustration.”
“I’ve come to realize that perfectionism is the smart person’s version of Fear of Failure.”
“Begin every day by doing the thing you fear most first. You'll feel like a winner the rest of the day.”
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
“That stagnation, low-grade frustration, and perpetual exhaustion comes from your refusal to act.”
"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.”
“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
“Be your own cheerleader. You must cheer yourself on and push yourself further. There will be many days nobody supports you but yourself.”
“Determination and persistence create paths invisible to those who give up. Never give up. Often, the winners are those that simply survived.”