Quotations About Action
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
Unknown
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Lock
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
William R. Inge
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen R. Covey
The shortest answer is doing.
Lord Herbert
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Unknown
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
African Proverb
Doing things is not the same as getting things done.
Jared Silver
One false step can bring everlasting grief.
Chinese Proverb
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
Arabian Proverb
Men expect too much, do too little.
Allen Tate
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Charles de Gaulle
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Red Auerbach
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
Jewish Proverb
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Italian Proverb