- When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb
- Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin
- We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt
- We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge
- We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~Harold Nicolson
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler
- There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin
- 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
- The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert
- The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
- The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown
- Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
- Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall
- People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~ Lewis Cass
- One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence
- Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~ Walter Anderson
- Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~ James Baldwin
- Never repent a good action. ~ Danish Proverb
- Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway
- Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate
- Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis
- Innocent actions carry their warrant with them. ~ English Proverb
- In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. ~ Henry J. Kaiser
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke
- He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ~John McPhee
- For the sake of one good action, a hundred evil ones should be forgotten. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb
- Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ~ Baltasar Gracian
- As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie
- An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow
- All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. ~ William F. Halsey
- All know the way; few actually walk it. ~Bodhidharma
- Actions speak louder than words. ~ English Proverb
- Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh
- Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde
- Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez
- Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare
- A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb
Well done is better than well said
