John Brown Quotes

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

If you really want to do something, go and do it; don't just talk about it.

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

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

Talk is cheap if it doesn't motivate action.

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

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

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

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

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

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