William Hazlitt Quotes

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

I don't like sitting around and not doing anything because that's the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The best way to be, is to do.

I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

You can do more, you can always do more.

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.