Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
~ James Shirley - [Action]

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
~ Samuel Smiles - [Action]

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~ Liz Smith - [Action]

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
~ Sydney Smith - [Action]

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
~ Sophocles - [Action]

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
~ Bishop Robert South - [Action]

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
~ Bishop Robert South - [Action]

No one will do it for you.
~ Ben Stein - [Action]

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson - [Action]

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson - [Action]

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson - [Action]

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
~ W. Clement Stone - [Action]

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
~ W. Clement Stone - [Action]

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
~ W. Clement Stone - [Action]

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.
~ Leonidas of Tarentum - [Action]

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
~ Russell C. Taylor - [Action]

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
~ Inga Teekens - [Action]

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson - [Action]

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson - [Action]