Action Quotes and Sayings
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Action is the antidote to despair.
Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.
- Tom Krause
Action is eloquence.
- William Shakespeare
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
- Calvin Coolidge
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the real man of action.
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
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
- Alexander Pope
The first step binds one to the second.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher
Action conquers fear.
- Peter Nivio
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
- Tehyi Hsieh
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson