Sayings and Quotes

Action Quotes and Sayings

Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

Action worships the deed.
Nathaniel LeTonnerre

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dreãm.
Oscar Wilde

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Oscar Wilde

“Do-so” is more important than “say-so”.
Pete Seeger

To overcome a fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the ãction you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams

Action conquers fear.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
Tom Krause

Our acts make or mar us, — we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W Clement Stone

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
William R. Inge

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Winston Churchill

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without ãction.
Benjamin Disraeli

Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels

Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boasting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Laurence J. Peter

If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis

The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.
Brian Koslow

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge

One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
D.H. Lawrence

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorthea Brande

Bite off more than you cãn chew, then chew it.
Ella Williams

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