Action Quotes

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
- Washington Irving

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

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Knowing is not enough, we must apply!
- Goethe

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

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- Peter Marshall

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
- Goethe

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Aldous Huxley

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- Frederick Douglass