Robert Henri Quotes

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

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

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

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

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Winning starts with beginning.

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.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

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

The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

Don't just sit there dreaming; dreaming is the luxury of the rich.

People with momentum can get so much done. Momentum is easy to lose and almost impossible to fake.

Excuses destroy success every time.

Done is the engine of more.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.