1. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke 2. Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin 3. Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb 4. After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown 5. The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert 6. Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler 7. We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt 8. A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb 9. An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow 10. Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis 11. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall 12. Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway 13. Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare 14. There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin 15. A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible 16. Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde 17. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997 18. Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~Author Unknown 19. If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas. ~Charles Barkley 20. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke 21. Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb 22. Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~Baltasar Gracian 23. All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma 24. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ~Nicolas de Chamfort 25. The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb 26. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton 27. If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser 28. There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ~Maria Edgeworth 29. Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, 1960 30. Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez 31. Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. ~Grey Livingston 32. He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ~John McPhee 33. Action worships the deed. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre, translated 34. The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman 35. We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson 36. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner 37. He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin 38. Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford 39. What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 40. Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson 41. Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge 42. He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin 43. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason 44. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 45. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence 46. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~James Baldwin 47. Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh 48. Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate 49. When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb 50. As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie 51. All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey 52. The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown 53. I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock 54. People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~Lewis Cass 55. We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge