Action Quotes

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Patience is also a form of action.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Your actions are your only true belongings.

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

The proof that one truly believes is in action.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?