Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Alva Edison
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
W. Somerset Maugham
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Saying is one thing, and doing another.
Proverb
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
Do-so is more important than “say-so.
Pete Seeger
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
John McPhee
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glasow
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
William Shakespeare
Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
Men expect too much, do too little.
Allen Tate
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
Antonio Porchia
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Harold Nicolson
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.
William James
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
Edmund Burke
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar Gracian
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Jules Renard
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Italian Proverb
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
Rita Mae Brown
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Marian Wright Edelman
There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Proverb
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Washington Irving
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Doing is better than saying.
Proverb
So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you’re not doing it, you’re not making progress at the fastest possible rate.
Joel Spolsky
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.
Edward Ericson
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
The first step binds one to the second.
French Proverb
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Anonymous
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Anderson
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Alva Edison
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
W. Somerset Maugham
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Saying is one thing, and doing another.
Proverb
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
Do-so is more important than “say-so.
Pete Seeger
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
John McPhee
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glasow
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
William Shakespeare
Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
Men expect too much, do too little.
Allen Tate
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
Antonio Porchia
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Harold Nicolson
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.
William James
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
Edmund Burke
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Italian Proverb
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
Rita Mae Brown
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Marian Wright Edelman
There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Proverb
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Washington Irving
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Doing is better than saying.
Proverb
So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you’re not doing it, you’re not making progress at the fastest possible rate.
Joel Spolsky
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.
Edward Ericson
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
The first step binds one to the second.
French Proverb
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Anonymous
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Anderson
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton