Action Quotes

Some Funny Action Quotes.
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
~Italian Proverb



There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
~Mark Twain


The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi


After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
~Author Unknown


Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
~Arnold Glasow


I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson


A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
~Washington Irving


Take it easy -- but take it.
~Woody Guthrie


Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
~Oscar Wilde


What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
~Charles Barkley


"When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers."
~ Colleen C. Barrett


If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
~Henry J. Kaiser


We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
~Harold Nicolson



He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
~Benjamin Franklin


Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
~Tehyi Hsieh


There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
~ Laurence J. Peter


Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ~ Mark Twain


"The shortest answer is doing."
~Lord Herbert


Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action. ~Unknown


To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
~Elbert Hubbard


I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
~Frederick Douglass