Action Quotes, Sayings about taking Action

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience – Albert Bandura.

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

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe – Anatole France.

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.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied – Arnold Glasow.

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

Well done is better than well said – Benjamin Franklin.

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.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure – Carl Sandburg.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live – Chamfort.

Action makes more fortune than caution – Charlotte Whitton.

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 can chew, then chew it – Ella Williams.

Never confuse movement with action – Ernest Hemingway.

Never mistake motion for action – Ernest Hemingway.

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

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 – Georges Bernanos.

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

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.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world – Joel A Barker.

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.

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.

I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action – Mae West.

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

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 dream – 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 action you fear anyway – Peter McWilliams.

Action conquers fear – Peter Nivio Zarlenga.

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

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 action replay showed it to be worse than it actually was! – Ron Atkinson.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven – St Francis Of Assisi.

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

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.

Action is eloquence – William Shakespeare.

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

Do, or do not. There is no try – Yoda.

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