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Quotes About Action

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
~ Hudson Taylor
Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!
~ Takeda Shingen
Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.
~ B. J. Palmer
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
~ Ai Weiwei
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
~ Marcus Garvey
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
~ Anthony Robbins
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
~ George Washington Carver
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
~ Khalil Gibran
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
~ Bryant McGill
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
~ Chuck Smith
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
~ Gautama Buddha
Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt
~ Al-Nawawi
actions speak louder than words
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you
~ Hasan of Basra
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
~ Krista Tippett
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment
~ Radhe Maa
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
~ Dale Carnegie
Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
~ Davy Crockett