John Bytheway Quotes

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Stop stewing and start doing!

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

Stop asking, start doing.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Do what you will, only do something.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.

If you want to do things, do things.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Never confuse movement with action.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!

The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

If you really want to do something, go and do it; don't just talk about it.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'