Langston Hughes Quotes

So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

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.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

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

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

It's always better to be doing.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

It's important to complete things and finish what you started.

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

He who commences many things finishes but few.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'