Action Quotes, Sayings about taking action
+28Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.
- Brendan Francis
+9Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez
+6A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
- Washington Irving
+5When deeds speak words are nothing.
- African Proverb
+4The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.
- Andre Godin
+3Men expect too much, do too little.
- Allen Tate
+1Talk doesn’t cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
+1Action worships the deed.
- Nathaniel LeTonnerre
+1The shortest answer is doing.
- Lord Herbert
+1Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
+1Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1All know the way few actually walk it.
- Bodhidharma
+1The first step binds one to the second.
- French Proverb
+1Action will destroy your procrastination.
- Og Mandino
+1Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
- Walter Anderson
+1In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
- Chin-Ning Chu
+1If your work speaks for itself don’t interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser
+1Be content to act and leave the talking to others.
- Baltasar Gracian
+1He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- Peter Marshall
+1Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
- Tehyi Hsieh
+1It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
- Christian Nevell Bovee
+1Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
- Italian Proverb
+1You’ve got to love what you do to really make things happen.
- Philip Green
+1If you don’t have daily objectives you qualify as a dreamer.
- Zig Ziglar
+1Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
+1We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
- Calvin Coolidge
+1People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do.
- Lewis Cass
+1Deliberation is a function of the many. Action is the function of one.
- Charles de Gaulle
+1Up, sluggard, and waste not life in the grave will be sleeping enough.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them.
- William F. Halsey
+1Ironically making a statement with words is the least effective method.
- Grey Livingston
+1We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals others by their acts.
- Harold Nicolson
+1Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
+1Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
- David Letterman
+1As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
+1One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
- D.H. Lawrence
+1Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
