Action Over Thought Quotes

“An idea gains value when you take action to bring it to life.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Take too much time, and time will take you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

“A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid.

The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery.

The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions.

I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man!”
― Richard Feynman

“You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.”
― Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April

“What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“Values are the definition of our actions in life”
― Armin Houman

“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
― Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

“They say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy, but choice requires thought, and in the moment when you know for certain that death is stalking you with strides you cannot outrun, there is no time for thought. You do not choose. Like Betto, or Malchus, or Valens, you act, doing either one thing or the other.”
― Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

“We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.
In the end, only action satisfies our longing.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

“Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Today, you can take an action that will lead you closer to your visions.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Give a smile to your enemies and they will go mad wondering what you are plotting against them.”
― Amit Abraham

“Action is the mother of creation.”
― Tatjana Urbic

“Dreams and hope won’t get you anywhere; only actions do; actions create results.”
― Anas Hamshari, Businessman With An Affliction

“Change your thought, change your mind.
Change your belief, change your action.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.”
― Z. Vally, The Green Line Divide: Romance, Travel, and Turmoils - endearing and entertaining

“If your thoughts are not right, your actions won't be right.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man

“An idea is only an idea until you breathe life into it.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Believe nothing. Try everything.”
― Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression