Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.

Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

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

Well done is better than well said.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Speak little, do much.

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

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

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

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.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind.