Action quotes and Sayings

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare

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

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Alva Edison

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
W. Somerset Maugham

Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi

Saying is one thing, and doing another.
Proverb

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge

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

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
Henry Ford

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

Do-so is more important than “say-so.
Pete Seeger

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.
John McPhee

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

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
William Shakespeare

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Men expect too much, do too little.
Allen Tate

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
Antonio Porchia

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Harold Nicolson

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.
William James

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

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

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare

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