Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
– Jim Rogers
Related Quotes:
- Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say. – Steve Maraboli
- Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit. – Jim Rogers
- Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. – Henry James
- The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action. – Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
- It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Don’t wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. – Anthony Liccione
- Without total dedication & discipline, success in any field is just a wishful thinking. – Subodh Gupta
- A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. – Timothy Ferriss
- Wishful thinking isn’t particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don’t be so cynical. – BA Gabrielle
- Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. – Fennel Hudson
- Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny. – Pratik Akkawar
- A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. – Thomas Jefferson
- Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that matter). – Bill Schutt
- I fantasized how no matter what happened, no one could ever come between us, call it wishful thinking, I called it a fact. – Holly Hood
- Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots. – Alistair Cross
- It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable. – Magnus Nwagu Amudi
- Notwithstanding how long you shall keep thinking about it, action is what will make it a reality! When you dream, act! When you act, act well! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
- Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. – Annie Dillard
- There was no wind which could have swept my thoughts away from my bositerous heart; not that day, not this day and not any other day – Pushpa Rana
- If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them. – Lauren Wolk
- All the dreams I’d allowed myself to imagine were nothing but pages swept away by the wind. – Freedom Matthews
- As the ocean tugged me at my feet, i realized that Early Auden, that strangest of boys, had saved me from being swept away. – Clare Vanderpool
- These,- he said gravely, -œare unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. – Aldous Huxley
- Knowing your feelings won’t change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. – Marlene Chism
- Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
- Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day Jr
- Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. – Chuck Todd
- Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded. – Mike Klepper
- You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts. – Steven Levy
- Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there. – Josephine Humphreys
- Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified. – NK Jemisin
- A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing. – MB Dallocchio
- A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts. – Mamur Mustapha
- You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity. – TA Sorensen
- The Dreaming is always; forever… it’s always happening, and us mob, we’re part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too. – Kate Constable
- Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- I am against justice -¦ whenever it is carried out by a mob. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana