428 quotes
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
— Unknown
“If you don't walk today, you'll have to run tomorrow.”
— Anonymous
“If you want to be happy, be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Change your life today do not gamble on the future act now without delay”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Long-term wins begin when you start before you feel fully ready.”
— DuckyHeals
“Knowledge is not power, but action.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The most effective way to do it is to do it”
— Amelia Earhart
“To be is to do.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all.”
— Voltaire
“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do.”
— Mark Twain
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
— James Clear
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“Nothing changes if you don't start.”
“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
“Whatever you do for others do it with true compassion and you will never make a mistake”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Actions always have more impact than words.”
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
“Actions speak louder than words.”
— Seneca
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
— Elon Musk
“Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts this is the secret of success”
— Swami Sivananda
“Do your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits that overwhelm the world”
— Desmond Tutu
“Knowledge without action is useless.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“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”
“The one who says 'I will' wins over the one who can.”
“You cannot be neutral on a moving train”
— Howard Zinn
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
— Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do and let faith be the bridge from love to action”
— Rumi
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing”
— John Stuart Mill
“Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”
— A.P.J Abdul Kalam
“Do not be wise in words be wise in deeds”
— Hebrew Proverb
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”
— Dale Carnegie
“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
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“The path is made by walking.”
— Antonio Machado
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not take”
— Wayne Gretzky
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
— Lao Tzu
“When you come to a fork in the road take it.”
— Yogi Berra
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act the rest is merely tenacity”
“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Success is not waiting but creating.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The wise do at once what the fool does at last.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs”
— Frederick Douglass
“The key to success is to start before you are ready.”
— Marie Forleo
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
“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.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Dont let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.”
— Earl Nightingale
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept”
— Angela Davis
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness”
— Al-Ghazali
“Put your trust in God, but keep your camel tied.”
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Dreams become reality when you take action.”
“Don't look too far ahead, just take a step now.”
“A wise person does at once what a fool does at last”
“Long-term wins begin when you replace excuses with ownership.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
“Time is not on your side. Start now.”
“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 keep meetings short and decisions clear.”
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
— Confucius
“Between your birth and your death there is a unique opportunity; do not let it slip by unlived.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.”
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you improve one repeatable process each day.”
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do”
“Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.”
“Compassion is an unstable emotion it needs to be translated into action or it withers”
— Susan Sontag
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be and just be one guided by faith”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“Long-term wins begin when you keep your standards when no one is watching.”
“Long-term wins begin when you protect your first hour for meaningful work.”
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
“Well begun is half done.”
— Aristotle
“The act itself is its own reward, and the punishment of the act is the act itself.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you trade speed for clarity at key decisions.”
“Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible”
— Francis of Assisi
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention”
— Oscar Wilde
“Prove it with results, not words.”
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
“A finished plan beats a perfect plan that never starts.”
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take”
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
— Cesare Pavese
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”
“The purpose of man is in action, not thought.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
— Martin Luther
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
— John Wooden
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“Long-term wins begin when you write down the next step before ending the day.”
“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
“Do not wait for a change of environment before you act. Get a change of environment by action.”
— Wallace Wattles
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
— Anatole France
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson
“I have come to you tonite to say that the time for waiting has passed that the time for action is now”
— Sonia Sanchez
“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
“Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man; the sage is one who also acts rightly.”
“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.”
— Horace
“Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you choose consistency over intensity.”
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
— Buddha
“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.”
“Long-term wins begin when you measure progress weekly instead of guessing.”
“For the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Without action, there can be no change.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
“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
“We are what we think turned into action.”
“One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things you have always wanted. Do it now.”
“To achieve goals you have never achieved before, you need to start doing things you have never done before.”
— Stephen Covey
“Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
— W.T. Purkiser
“Rest in reason; move in passion.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
— John F. Kennedy
“Knowledge is power, but applying it is more important.”
— Franklin
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
“A useless life is an early death.”
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
“You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
— Les Brown
“Consistency feels ordinary until you ship drafts and improve in public.”
“Compassion is a verb it requires action not just feeling”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
“Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through compassion”
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
— René Descartes
“The real mistake is doing nothing.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“You do not have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Zig Ziglar
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.”
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
— Jean Paul Richter
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“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
“You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”
— William Shakespeare
“Long-term wins begin when you return quickly after setbacks.”
“If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.”
— Maya Angelou
“When one is resolute, the gods take notice.”
“The time is always right to do what is right”
“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
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
“Long-term wins begin when you document what works and repeat it.”
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
— Anthony Robbins
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“Done is better than perfect.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Act as if what you do makes a difference it does”
“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
“The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God.”
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
— Emerson
“When you see something that is not right not fair not just you have to speak up you have to do something”
— John Lewis
“Done is better than perfect”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“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
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
— Dante Alighieri
“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”
“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
— Wang Yangming
“Dreaming of drinking wine will not quench your thirst.”
— Zhuangzi
“When I marched in Selma my legs were praying for peace.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Think big, start small.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
— Goethe
“A better tomorrow belongs to those who act now.”
“Justice delayed is justice denied.”
— William Ewart Gladstone
“Action comes before thought.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did”
“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
“Deeds not words”
— Emmeline Pankhurst
“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
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand.”
— Napoleon Hill
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the worst thing you can do is nothing”
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
“The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.”
— Yajnavalkya
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you focus on completion before optimization.”
“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
“Justice is truth in action.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing knowing is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must do”
“To avoid forgetting what I've learned, I must act immediately.”
“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
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
— Plato
“Every thought you produce anything you say any action you do it bears your signature.”
“Justice is not something that comes to those who wait it must be demanded and fought for”
— Elizabeth Warren
“If knowledge is lacking, action is incomplete.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“It is not enough to sympathize with those who are suffering we must have compassion and take action”
“Long-term wins begin when you close the loop on small commitments.”
“Start where you are use what you have do what you can”
— Arthur Ashe
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“Always bear this in mind everything is in Gods hands and you do what needs to be done”
— Anandamayi Ma
“You dont have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success, but every action has a consequence that must be reconciled.”
“Long-term wins begin when you do the obvious work others keep delaying.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you turn plans into calendar blocks.”
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
— Philip Pullman
“A hundredth of a good action is better than a thousandfold of fine speech.”
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
— Herbert Spencer
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”
— Peter Marshall
“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
— Horace Mann
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
“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
“Even a correct decision is wrong when it is taken too late.”
— Lee Tao
“The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.”
“Momentum begins with one task done well today.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do”
“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
“Consistency feels ordinary until you break large goals into daily proof.”
“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 secret of getting ahead is getting started”
“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
“Consistency feels ordinary until you finish one hard task before noon.”
“The end of learning is action.”
“If you want to change tomorrow, you must live differently today.”
“Don't hesitate, just move.”
“Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay toward peace.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do 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.”
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing”
— Seth Godin
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it and then dismantle it”
— Ibram X. Kendi
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
“Long-term wins begin when you raise the quality of your inputs.”
“God has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours no feet but yours”
— Teresa of Avila
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
— William Butler Yeats
“Long-term wins begin when you finish today before designing tomorrow.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be be one”
“We do not live for the sake of living, but to do something worth the while.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to make the world more peaceful.”
“If you don't do it now, it will be harder later.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Compassion is a verb”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
“Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.”
“I am not what I am I am what I do with my hands”
— Louise Bourgeois
“Lost time is never found again.”
“We do not need to reinvent human rights we need to implement them”
— Kofi Annan
“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 way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Walt Disney
“What you are is what you have been what you will be is what you do now”
“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 you don't do it today, you won't do it tomorrow.”
“The universe doesnt give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
— Steve Maraboli
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world around you, beginning with your own heart.”
“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.”
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish. Peace without action is just a prayer.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you treat time as an investment, not a container.”
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.”
— Joseph Murphy
“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.”
“One action is stronger than a thousand words.”
“Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future act now without delay.”
“Long-term wins begin when you solve root causes instead of symptoms.”
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my feet and my compassion”
“History is not made by those who wait for permission”
— Bree Newsome
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing learning is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must do”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Consistency feels ordinary until you practice the fundamentals relentlessly.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference because it does.”
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
“If the wind doesn't blow, row.”
— Latin Proverb
“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.”
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“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 review your priorities every morning.”
“Whenever you are in doubt, it is best to act.”
“Do what you can with what you have where you are”
— Teddy Roosevelt
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear action breeds confidence and courage”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you reduce distractions before they spread.”
“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.”
“Don't look too far ahead, let's start with what we can do today.”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you simplify your plan until it is executable.”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility and faith creates that readiness”
“Consistency feels ordinary until you prepare when the pressure is low.”
“To see what is right and not do it is the want of courage.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
— Karl Marx
“Long-term wins begin when you act on feedback before it goes stale.”
“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
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take.”
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
— Edward John Phelps
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
— Dorothy Day
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
6 / 336 showing
