Dan Millman Quotes

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

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

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.

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

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

It’s not enough to wish, it’s not enough to dream, it’s not enough to promise. We must do.

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

The best way to let others know what you're going to do is to actually do it.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals.

Love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it... Simply put: Love does!

Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?