An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Action Quotes
The sage manages affairs without action and spreads doctrines without words… By acting without action, all things will be in order.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are usually the result of chance and not of design.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflections? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
