Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

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

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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?

The secret of getting things done is to act!

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better.

When in doubt, do it.

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

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

It is better to start doing what one has to late than not at all.

In great crises, a man who has to act or speak stands bare and stripped of choice.

In order to implement your convictions you must win.

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.