Action Quotes

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

What most of us need is more horsepower and less exhaust.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Act boldly, and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Never judge a man’s actions until you know his motives.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind’s oldest illusions.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.