256 quotes found
“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.”
“I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.”
“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.”
“Words gain credibility by deed.”
“Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.”
“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”
“Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.”
“We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.”
“Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.”
“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.”
“Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.”
“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.”
