Famous Quotes about Action (437 Quotations)

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

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.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

To begin, begin.

To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act?

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

To talk goodness is not good… only to do it is.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.