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