Quotes and Sayings about Taking action

Do or do not. There is no try.

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

Take your time to think, but when it is time to act, stop thinking and act!

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

He who thinks too much, will not act.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Don't think, just do!

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

The sheep that sleeps gets carried by the current.

Harsh words can't solve problems - action will.

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Saying and doing are two things.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

I didn't study; I live.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in!

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Well done is better than well said.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Showing is better than telling.

I think that all you are is just the things that you do.

There are people who do things and people who take the credit, and the trick is to be in the first group, there is a lot less competition.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

People spend more time talking than thinking.

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.