Action Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”
– Isaac Newton

“Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.” 
– Italian Proverb

“An organization‘s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
– Jack Welch

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ”
– James Baldwin

“All men of action are dreamers.”
– James Huneker

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
– James Russell Lowell

“Doing things is not the same as getting things done.”
– Jared Silver

“Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds.” 
– Jewish Proverb

“Action is the antidote to despair.” 
– Joan Baez

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
– Joel A. Barker

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
– John F. Kennedy

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
– John Locke

“He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.” 
– John McPhee

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”
– John Steinbeck

“Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.  ”
– Jonatan Mårtensson

“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”
– Jules Renard

“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” 
– Lewis Cass

“The shortest answer is doing.” 
– Lord Herbert

“Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.”
– Lydia Lunch

“Action expresses priorities.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no moment like the present.  The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards:  they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.  ”
– Maria Edgeworth

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” 
– Mark Twain

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
– Mark Twain

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”
– Martha Graham

“There are three principles in a man’s being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don’t do what I say.”
– Martin Buber

“We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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