Jack Canfield Quotes

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

Ideas without action are worthless.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

Stop asking, start doing.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.