Quotes About Action

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth

Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.

Every act intends some good.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

It isn't an idea until it's created irrespective of its result

Actions, not knowledge, bring result.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions and progress. Followers think and talk about the problems and negative criticism

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

The best form of saying is doing.