Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. — Theodore Roosevelt
Short Getting Things Done Quotes
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. — Confucius
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — Vincent Van Gogh
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. — Leonardo da Vinci
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. — Dale Carnegie
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit — Dorothy Height
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Colleen C. Barrett
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Colleen Barrett
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. — Peter Marshall
Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done — Hyman Rickover
Top 10 Getting Things Done Quotes
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done. — Ratan Tata
It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done — Gregg Popovich
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. — Toni Morrison
To get better you have to step out of your comfort zone. You can't do the same things you've always done & improve. — Jordan Burroughs
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. — Nellie L. McClung
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself. — Matsuo Basho
Getting Things Done Image Quotes
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing — A. A. Milne
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
Motivational Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross
Good things come to those who are willing to get up and get it done.
No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Movie Quotes
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you'll never get it done.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? — Wyatt Earp
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody. — Frank Lucas
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. — Frank Lucas
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
Positive Quotes
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Doing a huge number of things doesn’t mean you’re getting anything meaningful done. — Leo Babauta
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. — David Allen
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. — David Allen
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. — David Allen
I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure. — Cameron Diaz
Remember, it's more mentally tiring to think about what has to be done, and all the things that might go wrong, than it is to physically do the job. — Jack Canfield
Get What You Need Quotes
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. — Joyce Meyer
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need. — Tyler Perry
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff. — Anne Lamott
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. — Mick Jagger
I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner. — Bruce H. Lipton
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. — Rick Rubin
You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you. — Dallin H. Oaks
What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up. — Anson Dorrance
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs
Get It Done Quotes
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston. — Whitney M. Young
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way. — Elizabeth Taylor
It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done. — Gregg Popovich
I have witnessed the first-hand change and the impact of global warming and climate change on the Himalayas. I have got a very simple message for COP26 - we have got to get it done. — Nirmal Purja
I say that I've never been late with a manuscript, but I don't mean to be arrogant; it's that I simply want to get it done as soon as possible so I can be set free. — Akira Toriyama
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them. — Aurangzeb
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. — George Burns
Get The Job Done Quotes
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. — Chuck Yeager
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security. — Stephen Hawking
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. — Johnny Unitas
I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day. — Lionel Richie
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job. — Roseanne Barr
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. — Ishmael Reed
To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done. — Christina Koch
What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done. — Hyman Rickover
If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done. — John Ilhan
You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done. — Adam Goucher
The first thing that Shaytan (Satan) will try to do is get you to stop praying. You know why? Because he has to kill the guard if he wants to penetrate the castle. Once the guard is gone, then Shaytan(satan) can open the floodgates for evil. And he has a lot of patience. He has done this to many people before so he’s experienced as well. — Nouman Ali Khan
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. — Lin Yutang
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. — Alan Cohen
Once you stop believing that it might somehow be possible to avoid hard choices about time, it gets easier to make better ones. You begin to grasp that when there’s too much to do, and there always will be, the only route to psychological freedom is to let go of the limit-denying fantasy of getting it all done and instead to focus on doing a few things that count. — Oliver Burkeman
Good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get things done. — Jocko Willink
Big thinkers smell and read other big thinkers. If you're urgent and want to get things done fairly urgent, you're in the big thinkers camp. If you got all the time in the world, you ain't part of the big thinker's camp, you get to pick and choose. — Patrick Bet-David
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. — Lewis Carroll
The joy of a psychedelic is when you have the balls to go into the darkness, and all of a sudden you realize that the darkness was a complete illusion. All the darkness and negativity and spooky shit and guilt and fear and crap you thought was inside you, and all the bad things you thought you’ve done, and all the things you feel terrible about secretly… you realize that’s nothing. it’s an illusion. The universe loves you, you are completely embraced by the entire universe. You are an incremental part of the functioning of the cosmos. You are an incredible, wonderful, perfect f*cking thing. And when you get a glimpse of that, it’s the greatest feeling ever. Because you’re healed. Because that’s what true healing is, man. True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place. True healing is realizing you just had a little bit of dust on the windshield man…you brush it off you know that’s all, man. — Duncan Trussell
A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love things that are endless, I hate them to stop. It's like order and disorder: I rather love disorder and things that move, it's a state where one gets more things done! — Sonia Rykiel
People who start at the top never understand what they missed at the bottom. The guy who started by sorting the mail, or cleaning the restaurant late at night, or fixing the equipment at the gym, that’s the guy who knows how things get done. After he’s eventually worked his way up through the ranks, he knows how everything works, why it works, what to do when it stops working. That’s the guy who will have longevity and value and impact, because he knows what it took to get to the top. You can’t claim you ran a marathon if you started at the seventeenth mile. — Tim Grover
I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit? — Temple Grandin
Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far. — Kevin Systrom
We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better. — Kenneth Williams
The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing. — Annabella Sciorra
Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people. — Lincoln Brewster
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done. — Colin Powell
In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done. — Andrew Bogut
In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time. — Mike Krzyzewski
The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done. — Georges St-Pierre
you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. — Les Brown
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. — Eli Broad
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens. — Alex Garland
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it. — Octavio Paz
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