Category Detail for Action (27 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Joaqin Setanti General Action Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
2 Sir Walter Scott General Action If you turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
3 Latin Proverb General Action If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
4 Stella, Lady Reading General Action The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
5 Bishop Richard Cumberland General Action It is better to wear out than to rust out.
6 Shakespeare General Action Action is eloquence.
7 Ralph Waldo Emerson General Action In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
8 John Fletcher General Action Deeds, not words shall speak me.
9 Benjamin Franklin General Action Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
10 Ernest Hemingway General Action Never mistake motion for action.
11 George Henry Lewes General Action The only cure for grief is action.
12 Paul Pearsall General Action We come to feel as we behave.
13 Greek Proverb General Action Well begun is half done.
14 Will Rogers General Action Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
15 Thomas Carlyle General Action Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
16 Sidney Smith General Action A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men and women whom timidity prevented from making a first effort, who if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone to great lengths in the career of fame.
17 Benjamin Franklin General Action Well done is better than well said.
18 Peter Drucker General Action Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
19 Goethe Literature Action Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
20 Shakespeare Literature Action Strong reasons make strong actions. King John Act III Sc. 4
21 George Patton Politics Action A good plan violently executed right now is worth a hundred perfect plans put off until next week.
22 Jawaharlal Nehru Politics Action Actions to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
23 Helen Keller Politics Action It is no true optimism to declare the world is a good world when it is not. It is for us rather to insist that it shall be made good, and exert ourselves to bring it out.
24 Flavius Vegetius Renatus Religion Action Be sure to keep busy, so the devil may always find you occupied.
25 John Locke Religion Action The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
26 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Religion Action Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
27 George Bernard Shaw Religion Action To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.