Robert J. Ringer Quotes

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

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

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

As long as I'm productive, staying healthy and doing the right things, I should be fine.

And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Do more than believe: practice.

Education without execution is extinction

Reading is good, action is better.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.