Action Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is action… but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.

— Robert Ringer

Abilities are limited, but there is no limit for imagination.

— Anonymous

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

— Dan Millman

The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.

— Roger von Oech

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

— Wang Yangming

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

— David Ben-Gurion

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

— John Burroughs

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

— Paul J. Meyer