action Quotes (54)

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”

“Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.”

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

“Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.”

“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.”

“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”

“The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.”

“Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.”

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”

“Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.”

“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

“The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.”

“Many who build castles in the air cannot build a hut on earth.”

“There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.”

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“Thoughts are the seed of action.”

“Deliberate slowly, execute quickly.”

“Goals help you channel your energy into action.”

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”

“Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.”

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.”

“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”

“If you desire fish, weave a net.”

“The time for action is now. It is never too late to do something.”

“Act humbly and aim high.”

“One never regrets acting with moderation.”

“If you wish to be a hard worker, you must act diligently.”

“Heaven never helps the man who will not act.”

“Even if the world ends tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today.”

“Make hay while the sun shines.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“Focus all your energy on what you can do today.”

“We must not wait for the future; we must create it ourselves.”

“He who acts as soon as he speaks — that is a person of worth.”

“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”

“He who speaks but does not act is like a garden full of weeds.”

“Speech is the mirror of action.”

“A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.”

“Promises alone will not fill the stomach.”

“Nothing good happens to those who lack courage.”

“I don't want you to chase your dreams.”

“Nothing replaces actually doing the work.”

“Motivation is crap.”