Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Author Unknown
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. - Author Unknown
The great man is the man who has the courage to act. - Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
The shortest answer is doing. - Lord Herbert
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. - Robert Brault
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. - John McPhee
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The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. -Thomas Edison[/caption]The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell. - Michael Josephson
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration. - Ernest Newman
We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose. - Robert Brault
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. - Alfred Adler
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. - Arabian Proverb
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. - Arnold Glasow
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. - Brendan Francis
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. - Peter Marshall
Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway
Action is eloquence. - William Shakespeare
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. - Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy. - Henry Ford
When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable. - Greg Anderson
It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. - Orval Hobart Mowrer
What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. - Robert Brault
Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. - Jonatan Martensson
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. - William R. Inge
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Benjamin Franklin
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? - George Clason
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds. - Jewish Proverb
One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. - D.H. Lawrence
When deeds speak, words are nothing. - African Proverb
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie
All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. - William F. Halsey
The best way out of a problem is through it. - Author Unknown
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. - William J. Lock
When it seems that something can’t be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done. - Robert Brault
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. - Lewis Cass
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
Action is taking the first step. Action is climbing the hill. Action combined with desire, harmonious intent, and undoubting yesfulness is invincible. Hallelujah! - Terri Guillemets
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. - Tehyi Hsieh
Now and then it’s good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason. - Robert Brault
Men expect too much, do too little. - Allen Tate
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. - Mignon McLaughlin
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. - Zig Ziglar
Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done. - Betsy Cañas Garmon
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. - Oscar Wilde
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. - Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg. - Author Unknown
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" - Robert Brault
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. - Charles Barkley
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
Talk doesn’t cook rice. - Chinese Proverb
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. - Baltasar Gracián
All know the way; few actually walk it. - Bodhidharma
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. - Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)
The first step binds one to the second. - French Proverb
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. - G.K. Chesterton
If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. - Maria Edgeworth
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. - Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960
Action is the antidote to despair. - Joan Baez
Doing things is not the same as getting things done. - Jared Silver
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