Wangari Maathai Quotes

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

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

I like to get my hands dirty. Talk is cheap.

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

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Whoever guards the fig tree shall eat its fruit.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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.

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

Speak little, do much.

The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

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

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.