Denis Waitley Quotes

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

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.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

You don't get anything done by planning

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

He who considers too much will perform little.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

The best way to be, is to do.

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.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.