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.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of 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 must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.
He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
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.