Quotes about Action
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
Activity is the only road to knowledge.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
— George Bernard Shaw
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
— George Eliot
We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
— George Eliot
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
— George Eliot
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
— George Eliot
Cathy told her that the most important thing in life was to clean up one's own mess, commit oneself a hundred percent to reality, place all one's energy in the present moment, and to do so right now, immediately.
— Isabel Allende
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.
— Ashley Montagu
If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.
— Anonymous
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
— Anonymous