Action Quotes

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

But an audience thinks when it’s watching the screen That the actors make up every word in the scene.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest.

Acts themselves alone are history… Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish! All that is not action is not worth reading.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Do as we say, and not as we do.