Quotes

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
-Learned Hand

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
-Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

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

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
-Italian Proverb

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

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

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

Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
-John Dewey

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

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-Leo Tolstoy

Men expect too much, do too little.
-Allen Tate

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.
-Andre Gide

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
-Baltasar Gracian

Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford

Action worships the deed.
-Nathaniel LeTonnerre

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
-Epictetus

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

Knowing is not enough, we must apply!
-Goethe

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

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

Only actions give life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
-Jean Paul Richter

You really can change the world if you care enough.
-Marian Wright Edelman

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
-Moliere

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
-Karen Horney

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again, and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
-Anais Nin

Never mistake motion for action.
-Ernest Hemingway

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
-Charlotte Whitton

Action is the antidote to despair.
-Joan Baez

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
-John Dewey

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
-Walter Anderson

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
-Anonymous Author

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Well done is better than well said.
-Benjamin Franklin

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
-Learned Hand

Action is the antidote to despair.
-Joan Baez

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
-Alfred Adler

Actions lie louder than words.
-Carolyn Wells

A promise is a cloud, fulfillment is rain.
-Arabian Proverb

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

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

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
-Japanese Proverb

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
-Immanuel Kant

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
-Tehyi Hsieh

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-Vance Havner