Action Quotes

Actions lie louder than words.

If you want to get along, go along.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.

But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Never lower your target ; increase your actions.

Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.

The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Real action is in silent moments.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

Tact is good taste in action.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Only super-efforts count.

All men of action are dreamers.