Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

Better is the enemy of good.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

The best is the enemy of the good enough.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

You don't get anything done by planning

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.