Quotes About Action

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it ... do it.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Talking is easy, action difficult.

One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.