Action quotes and Sayings


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

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

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Jules Renard

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

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang

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

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
Rita Mae Brown

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Marian Wright Edelman

There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin

Barking dogs seldom bite.
Proverb

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

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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

Doing is better than saying.
Proverb

So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you’re not doing it, you’re not making progress at the fastest possible rate.
Joel Spolsky

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes

Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
John F. Kennedy

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.
Edward Ericson

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

The first step binds one to the second.
French Proverb

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nevell Bovee

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

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

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.
Anonymous

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Anderson

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton

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