Action Quotes

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

The sage manages affairs without action and spreads doctrines without words… By acting without action, all things will be in order.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are usually the result of chance and not of design.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffing of the vertebrae which causes them to be loyal, to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing – “carry a message to Garcia.”

Act well at the moment, and you performed a good action for all eternity.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.