Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mohandas Gandhi

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter Drucker

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle