Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Action(s).
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,To weep is to risk appearing sentimentalTo reach out to another is to risk involvement,To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true selfTo place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their lossTo love is to risk not being loved in return,To hope is to risk despair,To try is to risk to failure.But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing is nothing.He may avoid suffering and sorrow,But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.Only a person who risks is free.
Anon., seen variously attributed
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
James Shirley
Take action in order to move toward your goals.
Les Brown
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
Thomas Traherne
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Francis Bacon
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Noelie Alito
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine De SaintExupery
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Peter Drucker
The greatest step is out the door.
Proverb
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
Swami Vivekananda
Act quickly, think slowly.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Vinet
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
W. Clement Stone
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.
Robert J. Mckain
