This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.
~ Charles Dickens
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
~ Aristotle
Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Action is eloquence.
~ William Shakespeare
The shortest answer is doing.
~ English Proverb
The end of man is action.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
~ Edward L. Curtis
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.
~ Charlotte P. Gilman
The only menace is inertia.
~ Saint John Perse
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
~ Henry Miller
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake them up.
~ Anonymous
Men expect too much do too little.
~ Allen Tate
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
~ William James
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
~ James A. Garfield
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
~ George A. Buttrick
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
~ John F. Kennedy
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Untilled ground however rich will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
~ Therese Of Lisieux
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
~ Harry A. Hopf
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.
~ Margaret Widdemer
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.
~ Christina Rossetti
The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
~ Michael Curtiz
Above all try something.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
~ William Feather
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
~ Voltaire
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
~ Margaret Halsey
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.
~ Chinese Proverb
Ef women want any rights more'n dey got why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.
~ Sojourner Truth
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
~ Victoria Claffin Woodhull
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Life is worth being lived but not worth being discussed all the time.
~ Isabelle Adfani
Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
~ George Washington
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
~ Herbert Hoover
If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing don't talk about it ... do it.
~ George W. Biount
If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.
~ Greek Proverb
Talking is easy action difficult.
~ Spanish Proverb
