Dan Millman Quotes

Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

Ideas lead to actions.

Nothing happens until you decide.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Stop asking, start doing.

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

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

It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.