Quotes about action

"Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them."

Whitehead, Alfred North on action   

"Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on action   

"Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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"No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."

Wilde, Oscar on action   

"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done."

Woolf, Virginia on action   

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

Wordsworth, William on action   

"Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on action   

"To begin, begin."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on action   

"You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have."

Ziglar, Zig on action
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"We will not know unless we begin."

Zinn, Howard on action   

"Where others see complexity, the person of action sees the thing that needs to be done."

Lipsey, Michael on action   

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

Pope, Alexander on action   

"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world."

Radcliffe, Ann on action   

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

Burke, Edmund on action   

"Never mistake motion for action."

Hemingway, Ernest on action   

"He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg."

Chinese Proverb on action   

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. "

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

"“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action