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