Action
Quotes on Action
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist
The shortest answer is doing.
Lord Herbert (1583-1648) English philosopher, diplomat
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747) French moralist
I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity.
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) French author
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly.
Macbeth, Macbeth William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) German social philosopher
Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it’s cowardice.
George Jackson (1942-1971) American radical
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish writer
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president
Men of action intervene only when the orators have finished.
Emile Gaboriau (1835-1873) French author
