Famous Quotes about Action (437 Quotations)

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Action without a name, a ''who'' attached to it, is meaningless.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Actions lie louder than words.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Allow motion to equal emotion.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.