Quotes About Action

For so must it be, and help me do my part.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Go and wake up your cook.

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Life happens at the level of events, not words.

Right action is the key to good living.

If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.