Action Quotes

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

Danilo Dolci

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.

Edward Ericson

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Wilfred A. Peterson

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Ella Williams

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

Jean De la Bruyere

Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.

Belzer Rabbi

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Goethe

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Dodie Smith 1896

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte 1769

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning

Joe Hil

That action is best which provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Francis Hutcheson

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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