256 quotes found
“Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time.”
“Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
“If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing don't talk about it ... do it.”
“If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.”
“Talking is easy action difficult.”
“One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.”
“Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.”
“When I talked no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive and I no longer find anyone incredulous.”
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
“When it comes to getting things done we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
“Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.”
“Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.”
“All worthwhile men have good thoughts good ideas and good intentions but precious few of them ever translate those into action.”
“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.”
“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.”
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.”
“What you theoretically know vividly realize.”
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.”
“No age or time of life no position or circumstance has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!”
