Carol Channing Quotes

Be a doer, not a stewer.

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

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

Instead of pondering about what if or what could have been, I'm just going to go out there and do.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

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

It's one thing to speak about it and another to actually do something about it.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

When in doubt, do something.

Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.

I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

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

If you want to do things, do things.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Business needs to push the agenda rather than waiting for it to happen.

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

Speak less but act more.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.