Actions Proverbs

Sayings about Actions

A man's actions are more important than his ancestry. ~ Kenyan Proverbs

If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future -- look into your present actions. ~ Chinese Proverbs

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal. ~ Saying

If your inner mind isn't deceived, your outer actions won't be wrong. ~ Tibetan Proverbs

For the sake of one good action, a hundred evil ones should be forgotten. ~ Chinese Proverb

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~ Saying

Actions speak louder than words. ~ English Proverbs

If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy. ~ Saying

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. ~ Saying

Never repent a good action. ~ Danish Proverbs

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. ~ Traditional Proverb

The beginning is the half of every action. ~ Greek Proverbs

Activity and sadness are incompatible. ~ Saying

Active people never have louse bites. ~ Chinese Proverb

It takes a single idea and a single action to move the world. ~ Saying

Talking is easy, action is difficult. ~ Spanish Proverbs

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will. ~ Saying

Active hands, full bellies. ~ Cambodian Proverbs

Virtue consists of action. ~ Dutch Proverbs

Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty. ~ Saying

Good actions are never lost. ~ Turkish Proverbs

If you commence a good action, leave it not incomplete. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese Proverbs

Embrace life, have confidence in yourself, take action. ~ Saying

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. ~ Bible

Innocent actions carry their warrant with them. ~ English Proverb

Life is built of the things we do. The only constructive material is positive action. ~ Saying

Success could be described as 50/50 -- 50% vision and 50% action. ~ Saying

Quotations about action

One who fears failure limits his activities. ~ Henry Ford

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~ Baltasar Gracián

Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other. ~ Deepak Chopra

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do nothing else. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ~ Indira Gandhi

To achieve great things, we must dream as well as act. ~ Anatole France

Action must be taken at once! There is no time to be lost. ~ Miguel Hidalgo

Action is the real measure of intelligence. ~ Napoleon Hill

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius. ~ James A. Worsham

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ~ Arthur Koestler

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts. ~ Hannah Arendt

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. ~ Bhagavad Gita

Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. ~ Lord Weinstock

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ~ Xun Zi

Action should culminate in wisdom, or is it action is a culmination of wisdom. ~ Bhagavad Gita

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? ~ Kahlil Gibran

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

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. ~ Robert Half

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self. ~ Goethe

Action expresses priorities. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. ~ Goethe

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ~ Anthony Robbins

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ~ Confucius

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ~ Aristotle

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~ William James

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ~ Henri L. Bergson

Every activity of man should add to the intangible values of life as well as to the tangible. ~ Author Unknown

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. ~ Les Brown

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. ~ Edwin P. Whipple

Action is the antidote to despair. ~ Joan Baez

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. ~ Goethe

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. ~ Matthew Arnold

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Because they had a vision, a desire, and they took action. ~ Thomas J. Vilord

Action is character. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Action is eloquence. ~ William Shakespeare

Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your pattern leads your life. ~ J. G. Gallimore

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Happiness is activity. ~ Aristotle

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than one lovely action. ~ James Russell Lowell

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

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. ~ Goethe

All human activity is prompted by desire. ~ Bertrand Russell

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. ~ Paul Goodman

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. ~ Georges Bernanos

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well. ~ Abbie Hoffman

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action makes more fortune than caution. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Act, and God will act. ~ Joan of Arc

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. ~ David Seabury

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ~ Albert Einstein

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. ~ Aristotle

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. ~ Johann G. Fichte

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. ~ Goethe

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. ~ John Updike

When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable. ~ Greg Anderson

Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~ Frank Tibolt

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ~ Friedrich Engels

Never mistake activity for achievement. ~ John Wooden

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. ~ Pat Riley

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. ~ Georges Clemenceau

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Published by The Library of Proverbial Wisdom on Sept. 15 , 2018