Action Quotes

The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

The only question is whether you're going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you're going to do it tomorrow, you'll never do it. You have to get on it today.

Action is more generally understood than words.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.

Your action expresses your priorities.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.

What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Everything you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it anyway.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.