You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
- Learned Hand
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again, and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.
- Andre Gide
Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
- Learned Hand
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
- Baltasar Gracian
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
- Charlotte Whitton
Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
- Calvin Coolidge
Action worships the deed.
- Nathaniel LeTonnerre
There are no gains without pains.
- Benjamin Franklin
Actions lie louder than words.
- Carolyn Wells
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
- Italian Proverb
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A promise is a cloud, fulfillment is rain.
- Arabian Proverb
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- Frederick Douglass
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Aldous Huxley
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
- Goethe
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- Peter Marshall
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
- Andrew Jackson
Knowing is not enough, we must apply!
- Goethe
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
- Washington Irving
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
- Jane Addams
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
- John Dewey
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- John Dewey
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
- Immanuel Kant
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Only actions give life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
- Jean Paul Richter
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
- Walter Anderson
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
You really can change the world if you care enough.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
- Unknown
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Men expect too much, do too little.
- Allen Tate
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
- Moliere
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
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
- Vance Havner
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
- Karen Horney
