Action Quotes

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.

We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do.

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.