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Quotes About Execution

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
~ Samuel Johnson
Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.
~ Johann von Goethe
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
~ Honore de Balzac
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
~ John Ruskin
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
~ Johan Cruijff
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
~ David Letterman
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
~ Howard Berman
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
~ Peter Drucker
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
~ Tony Robbins
Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
~ Stephen Covey
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.
~ Tony Robbins
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
~ Ernest Gaines
It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
~ Brian Tracy
Ideas without action are worthless.
~ Harvey Mackay
Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way.
~ Hal Elrod
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
~ G. M. Trevelyan
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.
~ Frans Johansson
It isn't about what you do, but how you do it
~ John Wooden
Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.
~ Crawford Greenewalt
What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.
~ Seth Godin