Joe Cowley Quotes

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.

The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

If you haven't done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

Action always beats inaction.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.