Action Quotes

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.(There is no reality except in action.)

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must, ' The youth whispers, 'I can.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Yes We Can!

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place.

Watch out success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.

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

Great hopes make everything great possible.

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.

A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.

Suit the action to the word, theWord to the action.

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

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

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them.

Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough.

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Commitment is an act, not a word

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188

But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.

Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.