I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Well done is better than well said.
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
The shortest answer is doing.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Never mistake motion for action.
Action is eloquence.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.
Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done.
Well-matured and well-disciplined talent is always sure of a market, provided it exerts itself; but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought for. There is a good deal of cant, too, in the whining about the success of forward and impudent men, while men of retiring worth are passed over with neglect. But it happens often that those forward men have that valuable quality of promptness and activity, without which worth is a mere inoperative property.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. Endeavor to make your talents convertible to ready use, prompt for the occasion, and adapted to the ordinary purposes of life; cultivate strength rather than gracefulness; in our country it is the useful, not the ornamental, that is in demand.
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
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.
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Talk doesn’t cook rice.
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
All know the way; few actually walk it.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
The first step binds one to the second.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.
If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Doing things is not the same as getting things done.
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell.
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.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
A nod,
a bow,
and a tip of the lid
to the person
who coulda
and shoulda
and did.
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs.
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable.
What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them.
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds.
One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Action is taking the first step. Action is climbing the hill. Action combined with desire, harmonious intent, and undoubting yesfulness is invincible. Hallelujah!
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Now and then it’s good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
Men expect too much, do too little.
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them.
The best way out of a problem is through it.
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
When it seems that something can’t be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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