Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

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

Well done is better than well said.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

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

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

The proof is in the results, and the proof will be in the ongoing ability to execute.

Deeds, not words - you accomplish! Do not talk!

Ideas are useless unless used.

Information without execution is poverty.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.

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.

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

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.

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.

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.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

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

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