Kathe Koja Quotes

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

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.

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

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

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.