Action Quotes

Joss Whedon

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Sigmund Freud

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Hermann Hesse

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Julie Anne Peters

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

Lao Tzu

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.. Lao Tzu
Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Aniekee Tochukwu

Good Music creates an intersection between heaven and the soul. Aniekee Tochukwu
Good Music creates an intersection between heaven and the soul

Amit Kalantri

True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.. Amit Kalantri
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.

William James

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

Ramakrishna

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

Marty Rubin

Children, like God, see only our actions.. Marty Rubin
Children, like God, see only our actions.

Barack Obama

Yes We Can!

Dean Koontz

Hope lies in action. Dean Koontz
Hope lies in action

Brian Raif

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.. Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The will to dare, the will to act.

Amit Kalantri

Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action.. Amit Kalantri
Inspiration gives you energy, courage puts you in action.

Mitch Albom

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.. Mitch Albom
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

John Wooden

Don't mistake activity with achievement.. John Wooden
Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Rob Liano

If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.. Rob Liano
If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.

Ken Poirot

Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.. Ken Poirot
Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Do precedes done. No precedes none.. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Do precedes done.
No precedes none.

Todd Stocker

Results fuel belief which causes us to take more action and get more results.. Todd Stocker
Results fuel belief which causes us to take more action and get more results.

Richard M. Nixon

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

Paulo Coelho

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.. Paulo Coelho
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.. Michael Bassey Johnson
POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

Orrin Woodward

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

Karen Azinger

Life was a destiny waiting to be seized.

Karen Azinger

Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.

Karen Azinger

Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate.

Marty Rubin

Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.. Marty Rubin
Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.

Eric Samuel Timm

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken
Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

Lada Ray

Contemplation + action = breakthrough

Mike Basevic

Any action is good action; do what you can from where you are and build off of that action each day.

Amit Kalantri

You don't need to wish harder, you need to work harder.. Amit Kalantri
You don't need to wish harder, you need to work harder.

Amit Kalantri

Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't
Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.

Amit Kalantri

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.. Amit Kalantri
If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

Amit Kalantri

Taking action is the best source of inspiration.. Amit Kalantri
Taking action is the best source of inspiration.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The will to dare, the power to act.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!

Edmond Mbiaka

It is important to have a dream, but a dream is absolutely nothing until you start to consistently give life to it through strategic actions.

Julie Connor

Let go of your past. Start making history!

A.J. Darkholme

Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.

Mike Basevic

Stay committed to staying focused and take action that is in line with what you want.

John E. Lewis

If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?

Steve Goodier

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

Rob Liano

Action is traction.. Rob Liano
Action is traction.

Rob Liano

All success comes down to this . . . action. Rob Liano
All success comes down to this . . . action

Ashok Kallarakkal

A friend in deed is a friend indeed.. Ashok Kallarakkal
A friend in deed is a friend indeed.

Edward Abbey

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Brad Thor

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

Aeschylus

There is no avoidance in delay.

Jonathan V. Last

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Bram Stoker

I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.

Murad S. Shah

Words are free, action is not.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.

Brian McGreevy

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

Heidi Reagan

Sometimes we have one chance, to ride that wave, one opportunity to jump on, take a deep breath and feel the rush of adrenaline. . . don't miss your chance.

Mahatma Gandhi

The future depends on what you do today.. Mahatma Gandhi
The future depends on what you do today.

G.I. Gurdjieff

Only super-efforts count.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Change your thought, change your mind.
Change your belief, change your action.

Ralph Ellison

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

A.J. Darkholme

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.

Frank Herbert

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.. Mahatma Gandhi
Action expresses priorities.

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

Frank Herbert

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Tom Stoppard

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.. Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Malcolm X

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Napoleon Hill

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Julien Smith

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Václav Havel

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Sukant Ratnakar

Intentions of a man reflects in his actions.

Amit Kalantri

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Olaf Stapledon

For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.

Horace

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Timothy Findley

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

Mollie Marti

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

Mouloud Benzadi

True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action,
But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.

Priya Ardis

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.

Priya Ardis

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

Ali Vali

You ever get the feeling all hell’s about to break loose and there’s nothing you can do about it?

Priya Ardis

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.

Lance Morcan

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

Nick Hastings

Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.

Corrie Ten Boom

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

Timothy M. Brenner

Action is what makes hope a reality.

Mollie Marti

With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you
The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

Henry Mosquera

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Peter F. Drucker

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

Anthony Burgess

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

Shawn Achor

Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.

Howard Zinn

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied.

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