“Vision without action is a Daydream. Action without vision is a Nightmare!!”

— Japanese Proverb

“To make your ideas work for you, you first have to work for them.” — Thomas Alva Edison

“You cannot build a reputation on what you are‘going to do’.” — Henry Ford

“We judge our intentions, but others judge our actions.” — William Mouton Marston

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” — Henry Wordsworth

“The thing that counts is not what we can do but what we actually do.” — Leo L Spears

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find that he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” — Henry Ford

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” — Walter Baghot

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.” — Denis Waitley

“Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.” — Ezra Taft Benson

If anyone ever tells you that your work is unprofessional, remember:

Amateurs built the Ark [which saved all the species]
and professionals built the Titanic [many died tragically]

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” — Henry David Thoreau

“There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.” — Robert Half 

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” — Stevie Wonder

“Effectiveness is neither an ability nor talent. It is a habit, a practice or self-discipline that must be learned.” — Peter Drucker

“When one’s attitude is cheerful, when he feels courageous and optimistic and when he manifests appreciation for other people, a vitalizing influence emanates from brain to make all his organs function effectively.” — Dr H. Shrgock Shryock

“Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.” — Peter Senge

“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.” — Harold Taylor

“When you aim for perfection you discover it is a moving target.” — George Fisher

“The heights by great men reached and kept,

were not attained by sudden flight.

But they, while their companions slept,

were toiling upwards in the night.”

— Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.” — Charles Dickens

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” — John F Kennedy

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” — Brian Tracy

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” — Pearl S Buck

“Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” — Sam Ewing

“I never knew an early rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck.” — Addison

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.” — John Wooden

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Sir Winston Churchill

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” 

— Thomas A Edison

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don’t recognize them.” — Ann Landers

“Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.” — David O McKay

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.” — Maxim Gorky

“Most of all you have to love what you’re doing. Anything you have to do is work. Anything you love to do is play.” — Lella Denmark, 1898

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” — John Ruskin

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”

— Moilere