Action Quotes

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. (Confucius)
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. View quote
Herbert Spencer
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. View quote
Pythagoras
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. View quote
Sallust
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. View quote
Charles Lamb
Justice is the truth in action. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. (Winston Churchill)
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. View quote
Isaac Newton
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. View quote
Andrew Jackson
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. View quote
Georges Bernanos
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. View quote
James Russell Lowell
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. View quote
Jerry Pournelle
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. View quote
William Shakespeare
I say that justice is truth in action. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. View quote
Joseph Conrad
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. (Confucius)
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The only cure for grief is action. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. View quote
John Dewey