#execution

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be, and Will I be successful? Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true, and you must act to make them real.

Action expresses priorities.

Let your actions flow from clarity, not confusion.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need arises.

Discipline is the root of prosperity.

Do not reveal your planned undertakings until they are accomplished.

A debt should be paid to the last penny, an enemy conquered to the last man, and a disease treated to the very root.

Keep your strategic counsel secret until the time of execution.

Walk with clarity and act with unyielding purpose.

A quiet resolve accomplishes more than loud boasting.

Clean execution of action is paramount; an action begun with dubious ethics will collapse in ruin. (Kural 651)

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it he is not yet man. Without it thought can never ripen into truth.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.