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