Action

(46 votes)   We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(45 votes)   Action makes more fortune than caution.

Luc De Clapiers

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(45 votes)   An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels
1820-1895, German Social Philosopher

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(45 votes)   But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(45 votes)   Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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(45 votes)   In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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(45 votes)   It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Dr. Howard Murphy

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(45 votes)   Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant
1847-1933, British Theosophist

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(45 votes)   The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(45 votes)   Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(44 votes)   All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(44 votes)   Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux
1901-1976, French Statesman, Novelist

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(44 votes)   How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Dean William R. Inge
1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London

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(44 votes)   One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

John Roger
American Author of ''Life 101''

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(44 votes)   Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverbs

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