Dionysius of Halicarnassus Quotes

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

If you haven't done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

A little too late, is much too late.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

You will never win if you never begin.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

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.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

Never confuse movement with action.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.