Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Action(s).
Where others see complexity, the person of action sees the thing that needs to be done.
Michael Lipsey
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Leo Aikman
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Anon.
Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Danish proverb
To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.
Chinese Proverb
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Bishop Robert South
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
Alexander Pope
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Ted Turner
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann von Goethe