William Hazlitt Quotes

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

Well done is better than well said.

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

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

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

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.

Great hopes make great men.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

People like to work for a winner.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.