Lack of Follow-Through Quotes

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

What I found in my research on Trump's charitable giving was that often he would promise something and then never deliver, but sort of go around with people believing he'd done this thing he's promised.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

Great talkers, little doers.

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

With Hillary Clinton, it's all talk and no action.

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

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

I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

I'm not a person who puts things out in writing and policy prescriptions and is not intending to follow through.

There's nothing worse than the guy who at the party goes, 'Oh, I had that idea two years ago.' Well, then, why didn't you do something two years ago?

My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.