451 quotes
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
— Marcus Aurelius
“If you don't do it now, it will be harder later.”
— Anonymous
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did”
— Mark Twain
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
— Confucius
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.”
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb
“Consistency feels ordinary until you focus on completion before optimization.”
— DuckyHeals
“The purpose of man is in action, not thought.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”
— A.P.J Abdul Kalam
“Don't look too far ahead, just take a step now.”
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”
— T.E. Lawrence
“Think big, start small.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Put your trust in God, but keep your camel tied.”
— Unknown
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Joseph Murphy
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
— Lao Tzu
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
— William Butler Yeats
“Consistency feels ordinary until you simplify your plan until it is executable.”
“Knowledge without action is vanity and action without knowledge is insanity but kindness needs neither to be perfect”
— Al-Ghazali
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
— Aristotle
“The path is made by walking.”
— Antonio Machado
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
— Plato
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“Act as if what you do makes a difference because it does”
“By thought the thing you want is brought to you. By action you receive it.”
— Wallace Wattles
“Whenever you are in doubt, it is best to act.”
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my feet and my compassion”
— Frederick Douglass
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
“Long-term wins begin when you return quickly after setbacks.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
— Karl Marx
“A finished plan beats a perfect plan that never starts.”
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Well done is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
— Wayne Dyer
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“The universe doesnt give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
— Steve Maraboli
“Dreaming of drinking wine will not quench your thirst.”
— Zhuangzi
“Long-term wins begin when you protect your first hour for meaningful work.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing knowing is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must do”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be and just be one guided by faith”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Chinese Proverb
“He who has begun has the work half done. Let him have begun.”
— Horace
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do”
— Epictetus
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.”
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
“You dont have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
— Les Brown
“The most effective way to do it is to do it”
— Amelia Earhart
“Consistency feels ordinary until you finish one hard task before noon.”
“Between your birth and your death there is a unique opportunity; do not let it slip by unlived.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“First say to yourself what you would be in your family and then do what you have to do.”
“If you don't walk today, you'll have to run tomorrow.”
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
“If it is a good idea go ahead and do it it is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission”
— Grace Hopper
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
— Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
— Dorothy Day
— Walt Disney
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”
— Dale Carnegie
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Action is the antidote to despair. And action for peace is the highest calling.”
— Joan Baez
“A goal without a plan is just a wish. Peace without action is just a prayer.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Without action, there can be no change.”
“To be is to do.”
— Immanuel Kant
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.”
“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
— Seneca
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Carpe diem.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“You cannot be neutral on a moving train”
— Howard Zinn
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
“One action is stronger than a thousand words.”
“God has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours no feet but yours”
— Teresa of Avila
“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible”
— Francis of Assisi
“To achieve goals you have never achieved before, you need to start doing things you have never done before.”
— Stephen Covey
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
— Emerson
“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.”
“The wise do at once what the fool does at last.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“Long-term wins begin when you act on feedback before it goes stale.”
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
“Deeds not words”
— Emmeline Pankhurst
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“Well begun is half done.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
— René Descartes
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
— Anatole France
“Momentum begins with one task done well today.”
“To avoid forgetting what I've learned, I must act immediately.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“The real mistake is doing nothing.”
— John Wooden
“A wise person does at once what a fool does at last”
“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”
“Justice is not something that comes to those who wait it must be demanded and fought for”
— Elizabeth Warren
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch feeling lucky it is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency”
— Rebecca Solnit
“You do not have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Action is the foundational key to all success, but every action has a consequence that must be reconciled.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“When you see something that is not right not fair not just you have to speak up you have to do something”
— John Lewis
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
— Maya Angelou
“Long-term wins begin when you write down the next step before ending the day.”
“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.”
— Jack Canfield
“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability”
— bell hooks
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you practice the fundamentals relentlessly.”
“Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
— W.T. Purkiser
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“If you dont go after what you want, you will never have it. If you dont ask, the answer is always no. If you dont step forward, you are always in the same place.”
— Nora Roberts
“Nothing changes if you don't start.”
“The key to success is to start before you are ready.”
— Marie Forleo
“A useless life is an early death.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“Start where you are use what you have do what you can”
— Arthur Ashe
“Every thought you produce anything you say any action you do it bears your signature.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
— Jean Paul Richter
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you improve one repeatable process each day.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
“Action comes before thought.”
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
— Peter Marshall
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
“Do your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits that overwhelm the world”
“If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
— Buddha
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted do it now”
— Paulo Coelho
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something do not wait for good things to happen to you”
— Barack Obama
“Knowledge without action is useless.”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
— Goethe
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world around you, beginning with your own heart.”
— Laozi
“It is not enough to sympathize with those who are suffering we must have compassion and take action”
“I am not what I am I am what I do with my hands”
— Louise Bourgeois
“Justice is truth in action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“What you are is what you have been what you will be is what you do now”
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it and then dismantle it”
— Ibram X. Kendi
— Baltasar Gracián
“A better tomorrow belongs to those who act now.”
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
— Cesare Pavese
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing”
— Seth Godin
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
“The one who says 'I will' wins over the one who can.”
“Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay toward peace.”
“Long-term wins begin when you raise the quality of your inputs.”
“Compassion is a verb”
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take.”
— Wayne Gretzky
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
— Gautama Buddha
“You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
“One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”
“What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
“Prove it with results, not words.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through family.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you treat time as an investment, not a container.”
“Actions speak louder than words.”
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to make the world more peaceful.”
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
— Philip Pullman
“Lost time is never found again.”
“Success is not waiting but creating.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“We do not need to reinvent human rights we need to implement them”
— Kofi Annan
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced”
— Vincent van Gogh
“If you want to change tomorrow, you must live differently today.”
“Compassion is an unstable emotion it needs to be translated into action or it withers”
— Susan Sontag
“Actions always have more impact than words.”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all.”
— Voltaire
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.”
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“I have come to you tonite to say that the time for waiting has passed that the time for action is now”
— Sonia Sanchez
“A hundredth of a good action is better than a thousandfold of fine speech.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“When one is resolute, the gods take notice.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you choose consistency over intensity.”
“Whoever you are come forth. You must not stay sleeping and dallying in the house of your family though you built it or though it has been built for you.”
— Walt Whitman
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
— Edward John Phelps
“Long-term wins begin when you document what works and repeat it.”
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
“Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.”
“The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“If the wind doesn't blow, row.”
— Latin Proverb
“Dont let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.”
— Earl Nightingale
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
— James Clear
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not take”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do and let faith be the bridge from love to action”
— Rumi
“Let the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you ship drafts and improve in public.”
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Long-term wins begin when you solve root causes instead of symptoms.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you keep meetings short and decisions clear.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act the rest is merely tenacity”
“Even a correct decision is wrong when it is taken too late.”
— Lee Tao
“Whatever you do for others do it with true compassion and you will never make a mistake”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be be one”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through compassion”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you trade speed for clarity at key decisions.”
“Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man; the sage is one who also acts rightly.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
— Elon Musk
“When I marched in Selma my legs were praying for peace.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.”
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility”
“Do what you can with what you have where you are”
— Teddy Roosevelt
“Compassion is a verb it requires action not just feeling”
“When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”
“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
— Horace Mann
“Long-term wins begin when you replace excuses with ownership.”
“Change your life today do not gamble on the future act now without delay”
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility and faith creates that readiness”
“Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts this is the secret of success”
— Swami Sivananda
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
“Don't look too far ahead, let's start with what we can do today.”
“We are what we think turned into action.”
“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
— Wang Yangming
“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.”
— Book of Proverbs
“Long-term wins begin when you do the obvious work others keep delaying.”
“The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”
— Robin Sharma
“Act as if what you do makes a difference because it does.”
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation in family is not to utter words but to live by them.”
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention”
— Oscar Wilde
“The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who dont do anything about it. Act for peace.”
— Albert Einstein
“Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.”
“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson
“If knowledge is lacking, action is incomplete.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”
— William Shakespeare
“Long-term wins begin when you measure progress weekly instead of guessing.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
— William Ewart Gladstone
“Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.”
— Ali Vincent
“Long-term wins begin when you review your priorities every morning.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you reduce distractions before they spread.”
“Long-term wins begin when you keep your standards when no one is watching.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
“The end of learning is action.”
— Franklin
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
— Dante Alighieri
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you prepare when the pressure is low.”
“Rest in reason; move in passion.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Always bear this in mind everything is in Gods hands and you do what needs to be done”
— Anandamayi Ma
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote.”
— Mencius
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do”
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”
“Done is better than perfect.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Long-term wins begin when you close the loop on small commitments.”
“The time is always right to do what is right”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear action breeds confidence and courage”
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Lord Chesterfield
“Well done is better than well said”
“Do not be wise in words be wise in deeds”
— Hebrew Proverb
“For the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
— Martin Luther
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
“The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.”
— Yajnavalkya
“Long-term wins begin when you start before you feel fully ready.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference it does”
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
“Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.”
“Knowledge is power, but applying it is more important.”
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
— Anais Nin
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
“Time is not on your side. Start now.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you break large goals into daily proof.”
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
— Anthony Robbins
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“Determine never to be idle.”
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the worst thing you can do is nothing”
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness”
“Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.”
“We do not live for the sake of living, but to do something worth the while.”
“History is not made by those who wait for permission”
— Bree Newsome
“Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay.”
“You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“Done is better than perfect”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing”
— John Stuart Mill
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
“Do not wait for a change of environment before you act. Get a change of environment by action.”
“Don't hesitate, just move.”
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
— Herbert Spencer
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing learning is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must do”
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept”
— Angela Davis
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“Knowledge is not power, but action.”
“Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation. Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Use your mind for peace.”
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”
“If you don't do it today, you won't do it tomorrow.”
“The act itself is its own reward, and the punishment of the act is the act itself.”
“Long-term wins begin when you finish today before designing tomorrow.”
“Dreams become reality when you take action.”
“When you come to a fork in the road take it.”
— Yogi Berra
“Consistency feels ordinary until you turn plans into calendar blocks.”
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