Action Quotes

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.

Surprise your doubts with action.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

... each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

Do your actions in the world, without forgetting that your find goal in life is to break free from all bondage and limitations. Always 'remember that you have a higher goal to attain.

Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

Clarity comes from action, not thought.

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

Tell people what specific action to take.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.