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

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Action Quotes, Doing Your Best Quotes

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that...

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that...

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy...

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy...

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself...

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself...

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's...

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's...

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but...

People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should...

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

Our life is made by the death of others.

Our life is made by the death of others.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are...

Here are three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he...

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he...

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier...

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier...

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything...

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything...