Famous action quotations

   Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
 ~ by Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

   Never mistake motion for action.
 ~ by Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
 ~ by Tehyi Hsieh

   Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
 ~ by Nicolas de Chamfort

   We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
 ~ by Calvin Coolidge

   He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
 ~ by Benjamin Franklin

   Action is the antidote to despair.
 ~ by Joan Baez

   Action is eloquence.
 ~ by William Shakespeare

   In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
 ~ by Italian Proverb

   After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
 ~ by Charles Barkley

   An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
 ~ by Arnold Glasow

   The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
 ~ by Ernest Newman

   A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
 ~ by Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible

   All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
 ~ by William F. Halsey

   When deeds speak, words are nothing.
 ~ by African Proverb

   Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
 ~ by William R. Inge

   Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
 ~ by Oscar Wilde

   The shortest answer is doing.
 ~ by Lord Herbert

   Talk doesn't cook rice.
 ~ by Chinese Proverb

   If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
 ~ by Henry J. Kaiser

   Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
 ~ by James Baldwin

   People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
 ~ by Lewis Cass

   I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
 ~ by William J. Lock



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