1,853 Quotes About Actions

We must take stock of our actions before we take others to task for theirs. And we’ll know that we’ve done that successfully when we find ourselves taking ourselves to task and suddenly realizing in that rather revealing process that the process can probably end with us.

Be a poet in action as well as in words.

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing – there’s nothing to be done for such people.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

A person usually has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good and a real one.

Assignments without deadlines are far better at producing guilt than stimulating action.

Where actions, good deeds, are impossible, words will have to do.

The true meaning of your words is not what you say, but what you do.

Pay attention. Sometimes the biggest lessons are in the smallest of words or actions.