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