Sayings about Action
Actions speak louder than words. ~ English Proverbs
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~ Italian Proverbs
A man’s actions are more important than his ancestry. ~ Kenyan Proverb
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~ Arabian Proverb
Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds. ~ Jewish Proverb
For the sake of one good action, a hundred evil ones should be forgotten. ~ Chinese Proverb
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. ~ Traditional Proverb
Good actions are never lost. ~ Turkish Proverbs
If you commence a good action, leave it not incomplete. ~ Hebrew Proverb
If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future — look into your present actions. ~ Chinese Proverb
If your inner mind isn’t deceived, your outer actions won’t be wrong. ~ Tibetan Proverb
Innocent actions carry their warrant with them. ~ English Proverbs
Never repent a good action. ~ Danish Proverbs
Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~ Chinese Proverb
Talking is easy, action is difficult. ~ Spanish Proverbs
The beginning is the half of every action. ~ Greek Proverbs
The first step binds one to the second. ~ French Proverb
Virtue consists of action. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese Proverbs
When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~ African Proverb
Quotations about action
Action expresses priorities. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~ Frank Tibolt
Act like you expect to get into the end zone. ~ Joe Paterno
To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer — but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort. ~ Scott Reed
Action makes more fortune than caution. ~ Luc De Clapiers
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. ~ A. L. Linall Jr.
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes
The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one’s powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty. ~Author Unknown
Ideas are a dime a dozen, they are worthless; but people who put their ideas into action are priceless. ~ Author Unknown
You can’t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~ Author Unknown
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. ~ Anthony Robbins
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~ Baltasar Gracián
Action is the real measure of intelligence. ~ Napoleon Hill
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal. ~ Author Unknown
Success could be described as 50/50 — 50% vision and 50% action. ~ Author Unknown
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ~ Author Unknown
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. ~ Maxwell Maltz
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~ Tehyi Hsieh
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. ~ Georges Clemenceau
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. ~ Vaclav Havel
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. ~ Les Brown
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ~ Aristotle Quotes
When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable. ~ Greg Anderson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ~ Friedrich Engels
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ~ Henri L. Bergson
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~ Harold Nicolson
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. ~ David Seabury
You don’t have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act. ~ Richard Dreyfuss
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations… is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts. ~ Hannah Arendt
To achieve great things, we must dream as well as act. ~ Anatole France
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ~ Abigail Adams
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. ~ John Dewey
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ~ Aristotle
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? ~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Action is the antidote to despair. ~ Joan Baez
We enjoy or suffer the consequences of our ideas, our acts or our hopes, and our fears. I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. ~ Norman Cousins
It takes a single idea and a single action to move the world. ~ Author Unknown
Life is built of the things we do. The only constructive material is positive action. ~ Author Unknown
Logic will not change an emotion, but action will. ~ Author Unknown
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ~ Elizabeth Smith
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ~ Robert Half
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action. ~ Virginia Woolf
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than one lovely action. ~ James Russell Lowell
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
Action without a name, a “who” attached to it, is meaningless. ~ Hannah Arendt
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one’s self. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. ~ Bhagavad Gita
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. ~ Peace Pilgrim
Actions lie louder than words. ~ Carolyn Wells
Action is the only thing that matters… I can see that at the end of my life, I am not going to look back and say, “I wish I had taken more action”. ~ Diana von Welanetz Wentworth
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. ~ William James
Because they had a vision, a desire, and they took action. ~ Thomas J. Vilord
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Action is character. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. ~ John Berry
Action should culminate in wisdom, or is it action is a culmination of wisdom. ~ Bhagavad Gita
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it — walk. ~ Ayn Rand
And all that you are sorry for is what you haven’t done. ~ Margaret Widdemer
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. ~ Charles Horton Cooley
Will is character in action.~ William McDougall
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor,and activity of man’s nature.~ Bishop Robert South
Action must be taken at once! There is no time to be lost.~ Miguel Hidalgo
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions. ~ Sigmund Freud
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ~ Author Unknown
Embrace life, have confidence in yourself, take action. ~ Author Unknown
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.~ Benedetto Croce
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.~ Georges Bernanos
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.~ William James
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do nothing else. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. ~ Johann G. Fichte
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
Act, and God will act. ~ Joan of Arc
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ~ Confucius Quotes
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions. ~ Albert Einstein Quotes
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. ~ Pat Riley
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. ~ Author Unknown
If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy. ~ Author Unknown
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well. ~ Abbie Hoffman
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Action is eloquence. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
