Action Quotes

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

Action is movement with intelligence

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Great actions speak great minds.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

First do it, then say it.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law.

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

I wish to work miracles.

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Action is the foundation of all success.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.