Action Quotes

"The future depends on what you do today."

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

Mother Teresa

"Procrastination is the thief of time; collar him!"

Charles Dickens

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

"Live truth instead of professing it."

Elbert Hubbard

"Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

Florence Nightingale

"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."

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

David Starr Jordan

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."

Anton Chekhov

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."

René Descartes

"Well done is better than well said."

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

Thomas Henry Huxley

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What you would do tomorrow, do today; what you would do today, do now."

Kabir

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

Amelia Earhart

"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."

Wangari Maathai

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Simone de Beauvoir

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."

Wangari Maathai

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

Jane Addams