Thought is not action.

Thought and action must never part company.

— Hannah Arendt

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

— John Andrew Holmes

“Words are important; actions are vital, but don’t just show your thoughts through your words or actions! Let your unique works speak your thought…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have absolutely no problem being thought of as an action chick because, quite frankly, very few women have ever done that.

— Carrie-Anne Moss

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful…

— Suzy Kassem

“A thought is nothing but a thought. Only action can bring a thought into reality.”

— Kitty Downer

“Read widely of others experiences in thought and action- stretch to others even though it hurts to and strains and would be more comfortable…

— Sylvia Plath

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

— Honore de Balzac

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

— Henry George

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction…

— Anonymous

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the…

— Robert Kennedy

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

— Ray Stevenson

Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you

— Steve Pavlina