Quotations about Action


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


Well done is better than well said.  ~Benjamin Franklin


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


After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.  ~Author Unknown


The shortest answer is doing.  ~Lord Herbert


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


We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.  Action always generates inspiration.  Inspiration seldom generates action.  ~Frank Tibolt


A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.  ~Arabian Proverb


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


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


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


Never mistake motion for action.  ~Ernest Hemingway


Action is eloquence.  ~William Shakespeare


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


Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.  ~Zig Ziglar


Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done.  ~Betsy Cañas Garmon,

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.  ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible


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


Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.  ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997


Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.  You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.  ~Author Unknown


Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"  ~Robert Brault,


If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.  ~Charles Barkley


Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.  ~Edmund Burke


Talk doesn't cook rice.  ~Chinese Proverb


Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.  ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish


All know the way; few actually walk it.  ~Bodhidharma


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


The first step binds one to the second.  ~French Proverb


I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.  ~G.K. Chesterton


If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.  ~Henry J. Kaiser


There is no moment like the present.  The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards:  they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.  ~Maria Edgeworth


Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.  ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960


Action is the antidote to despair.  ~Joan Baez


Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.  ~Grey Livingston


Doing things is not the same as getting things done.  ~Jared Silver

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