Browsing Topic Best Things Done Quotes

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Leadership is not always about getting things done ‘right.’ Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

I’m dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don’t necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.

Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I’ve already done. The more I’ve done, the more that’s likely to happen. Then I just throw it away. I wait until I’ve got the right way of getting a thing done, which means my songwriting proceeds at a very slow pace. But it’s the only way I can really work.

I don’t believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don’t think they want more gridlock. I don’t think they want more partisanship. I don’t think they want more obstruction. They didn’t send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That’s not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they’re grappling with every single day.

Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I’m doing. I’m very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven’t made the bed and if you don’t get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

You may delay, but time will not.

I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

I don’t speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don’t even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you’re somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you’re pretty much going to know what’s going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

I’ve thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress – the Democrats and Republicans – would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they’d be willing to try.

You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.