Action Quotes

It is by acts and not by deeds that people live.

Anatole France

Activity cures inactivity.

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

James Clear

It’s much easier to act your way into feelings than to feel your way into actions.

Action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.

Nick Vujicic

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Ted W Engstrom

Some injuries heal more quickly if you keep moving.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.

Angela Duckworth

We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action.

James Clear

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Aristotle

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

1 John 3:18

Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.

Angela Duckworth

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:17

Motivation does not come first, action does.

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

Lao Tzu

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Thoreau

Don’t delay – do it now.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Lao Tzu

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Walter Anderson

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t think, just do.

Horace

Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Nido Qubein

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Mark Twain

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

James 1:22

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino

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

Goethe

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.

Voltaire

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

Lech Walesa

Learn to do. Learn AND do.

Step by step and the thing is done.

Charles Atlas

We attain by attempt.

The more we do the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Peter Marshall

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

Doing is better than saying.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

It mightn’t be because you can’t - it might be because you don’t.

Later is one of the most abused drugs that we have available to us.

Henry Cloud

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The teacher learns more than the student. The author learns more than the reader. The speaker learns more than the attendee. The way to learn is by doing.

James Clear

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Tennyson

You don’t manage priorities, you have them. You manage your actions.

David Allen

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

Benedetto Croce

Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Vaclav Havel