Action quotes and Sayings - Page 3



If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them.
William F. Halsey

All know the way; few actually walk it.
Bodhidharma

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

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

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson

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

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

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

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain

It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Danilo Dolci

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Charles de Gaulle

Easier said than done.
Proverb

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

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Proverb

Let’s meet, and either do, or die.
Francis Beaumont

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.
William Shakespeare

It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
Anthony Trollope

Liberty’s in every blow!
Let us do or die!
Robert Burns

So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
William Shakespeare

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
Carlos Castaneda

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I’m free to choose what that something is, and the something I’ve chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy Carter

Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often
Mark Twain

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