Quotes About Action (Page 2)

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~ Jack London


When thinking won't cure fear, action will. ~ W. Clement Stone


Act, and God will act. ~ Joan of Arc


He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~ Benjamin Franklin


Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~ Henry Ford


Well done is better than well said. ~ Benjamin Franklin


There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt


Talking is easy, action difficult. ~ Spanish proverb


Procrastination is the thief of time.  ~ Edward Young


Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ~ Plato


I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~ John Locke


Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today. ~ Thomas Jefferson


Never confuse motion with action. ~ Benjamin Franklin


Prayer in action is love, love in action is service. ~ Mother Teresa


Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.  ~ Nicolas Chamfort


What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. ~ Aristotle


The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. ~ Thomas Fuller


The beginning is half of every action. ~ Greek proverb


Delay not to seize the hour! ~ Aeschylus


The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.  ~ Oscar Wilde


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


It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ~ Leonardo da Vinci


Never mistake motion for action. ~ Ernest Hemingway


First do it, then say it.  ~ Russian proverb


He that would have fruit must climb the tree.  ~ Thomas Fuller


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.  ~ Henri Bergson


You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.  ~ Ray Bradbury


Action is the foundational key to all success. ~ Pablo Picasso


Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ~ Albert Einstein


Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ~ Charles de Gaulle


If there is no wind, row.  ~ Latin proverb


Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well. ~ Abbie Hoffman


Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.  ~ Jim Rohn


The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.  ~ Barack Obama


Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~ William James


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