Action Quotes - Page 3

In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.

Let us act on what we have since we have not what we wish.

Cardinal Newman

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art of science or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

The shortest answer is doing.

English Proverb

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

Ideas are powerful things requiring not a studious contemplation but an action even if it is only an inner action.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks he thinks as he lives.

Reverend Vaughan Quinn

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't read what they write don't ask them what they believe just observe what they do.

To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.

George Santayana

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Through the picture I see reality. Through the word I understand it.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Henry David Thoreau

If you want a thing done go - if not send.

Benjamin Franklin

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Anonymous

Action is eloquence.

William Shakespeare

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas A. Edison

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren.

Bertrand Russell

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

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

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.

When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

After all is said and done more is said than done.

Anonymous

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

Italian proverb

But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.

Sir Walter Scott

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

Charles de Gaulle

Go and wake up your cook.

Arabian proverb

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Proverb

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you want something done right get someone else to do it.

Marion Giacomini

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

Bertrand Russell

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

Every breath we take from the airTakes oxygen from an insect’s lungs mid-prayerAnd every exhalation does loudly declareThat in the currency of life, we’re millionaires.A butterfly flapped it’s wings and Rome fellA passerby’s whistle cracked the liberty bellAnd I dare urge the daring not to yellLest we so bid a skyscraper a rough farewell.A snake’s tongue slithered and man did sinLet me tell you how the waves from a shark’s finDid set the tides on D-Day and let the allies win;Chance and destiny are identical twins.A word was spoken and the earth createdAnother phrase and the future was dictatedAnd so every action must be carefully weightedWe just never know how things are interrelated.

A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

The candor of a civilized mind comes from the ability to question self before action; the reverse is the case for the creative mind; act first, then question later.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't just think, ACT!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Only crazy people don’t do anything new and they expecting new result.

If words were actions then we would all be winners!

Stephen Richards

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