Baldwin Spencer Quotes

In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.

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

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

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

Many speeches can be heard throughout the world, but one always has to wait for deeds

It's deeds we need, not words.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.

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.

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

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

You have to follow that next step.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.

Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

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

History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality.

Planning is extremely important, but at some point you have to go out and do it.

It is important to put pressure on Janowicz.

The how will show up after the commitment to the what.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

I'm not interested until I see their execution.