Action Quotes

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Make history or be a part of it.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.

Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do. It's time to face your fears and take action. Expect Miracles.

Action and flexibility create opportunity

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Never confuse movement with action.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Silence, and non action are the root of all things.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.