Action Quotes

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

--Locke

Each result has action steps to back them up. The action steps are like a map. If you us them like a compass you will never get lost, and you will reach your destination.

--Jacqui Rivait

Think in the morning, act in the noon, eat in the evening, sleep in the night.

--William Stake

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The actions of men are like the index to a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them.

--Thomas Fuller

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

--Bruce Lee

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

--Dale Carnegie

Action is character.

--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

--William Butler Yeats

Never confuse movement with action.

--Ernest Hemingway

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

--Leonardo da Vinci

Actions are ours; their consequences belong to heaven.

--Sir P. Francis

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

--Napoleon Hill 

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

--Chamfort 

Let not the fruits of action be the motive of your actions, otherwise you might be disappointed and leave the path of right action.

--Rig Veda

Action conquers fear.

--Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

--Maya Angelou

Unrighteous deeds gradually undermine the very foundations of happiness.

--Swami Dayanand

The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.

--Brian Koslow

He who knows both action and knowledge with action overcomes death and with knowledge reaches immortality.

--Isa Upanishad

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

--Napoleon Hill

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

--Winston Churchill

Be concerned with actions only, never with its results.

--Yajur Veda

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

--Charles F. Kettering 

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action is the foundational key to all success.

--Pablo Picasso

Strong reasons make strong actions.

--Shakespeare

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

--Thomas Henry Huxley

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

--Zig Ziglar

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

--Confucius

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

--Sallust

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

--James Russell Lowell

Nobody can become perfect by merely ceasing to act.

--Bhagavad Gita

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

--Eric Hoffer

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

--Mae West

To do nothing is in every man's power.

--Samuel Johnson

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

--Schiller

What's done can't be undone.

--Shakespeare

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

--Albert Camus

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

--Charles De Gaulle

All actions are judged by the motives prompting them.

--Prophet Muhammad

Our good and evil deeds follow us continually like shadows.

--Lord Buddha

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

--Disraeli

Action speaks louder than words.

--Daniel Schiess

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

--Tony Robbins

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

--Tony Robbins

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

--Tony Robbins

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

--Tony Robbins

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

--William Shakespeare

Right action cannot come out of nothing, it must be preceded by thought.

--Jawaharlal Nehru

Never confuse motion with action.

--Benjamin Franklin

Effective action is always unjust.

--Maya Angelou

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

--Thomas Jefferson

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

--Emerson