Action Quotes

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!

That which holds our attention determines our action.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.