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Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Mary Todd Lincoln

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.

He who hesitates is last.

Mae West

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.

Stanley Kubrick

Words gain credibility by deed.

Terence

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

Molière

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

James A. Worsham

When it comes to getting things done we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

Colleen C. Barrett

Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.

Sallust

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John Cage

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.

John Hancock Field

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.

Georges Bernanos

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Johann von Goethe

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

Benedetto Croce

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

Nicolas de Chamfort

What you theoretically know vividly realize.

Francis Thompson

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

William Ellery Channing

Above all try something.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

William Feather

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

G.K. Chesterton

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Margaret Halsey

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.

Chinese Proverb

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

Sojourner Truth

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Victoria Claffin Woodhull

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Anonymous

Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time.

Isabelle Adfani

Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing don't talk about it ... do it.

George W. Biount

If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Talking is easy action difficult.

Spanish Proverb

One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

Florence Nightingale

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.

The only menace is inertia.

Saint John Perse

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

The end of man is action.

Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Edward L. Curtis

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charlotte P. Gilman

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake them up.

Anonymous

Men expect too much do too little.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

James A. Garfield

Act-act in the living present!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

George A. Buttrick

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.

Therese of Lisieux

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