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Quotes About Action

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
~ Aristotle
Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.
~ Jim Rohn
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
~ Thomas Carlyle
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
~ Matthew Henry
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge must come through action.
~ Sophocles
People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.
~ Scott Berkun
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.
~ Adyashanti
Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.
~ Chip Heath
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
~ Olive Schreiner
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
~ Mort Sahl
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge is not power unless it is used.
~ Harvey Mackay
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
~ Honore de Balzac
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
~ Dominique Pire
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Knowledge applied is productivity.
~ Peter Drucker
Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.
~ George W. Bush
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
~ Philip Sidney
Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.
~ Ernest Sosa
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
~ Plutarch
In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally
~ Kevin Kelly