Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Finger pointing never got anything done!

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The shortest answer is doing.

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

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

Well done is better than well said.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

It's deeds we need, not words.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.