Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Action(s).
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
Paul Simon
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Buddinton Kelland
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
William Dean Howells
Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
Edgar F. Magnin
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.
Plutarch
He who considers too much will perform little.
Friedrich von Schiller
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
Robert Townsend
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.
Source Unknown
Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.
Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.
My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
Francis Bacon
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Sir Winston Churchill
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
Sir John Eliot
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to themThe source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.
Bible, Matthew 7:12 (KJV)
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
