Action Quotes

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in actio...

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and th...

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks an...

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable ...

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern E...

God alone can finish.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or do...

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Justice is the truth in action.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. Th...

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatne...

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

FOXFIRE NEVER SAYS NEVER! By the time the kidnapped turquoise-and-chrome car overturns--turns and tu...

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects...

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on...

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,...

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us...

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

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Oh Lord thou givest us everything at the price of an effort.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...

Count the deed, not the thought.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art of s...

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other peo...

Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war -...

Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

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

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It m...

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

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

The future depends on what you do today.

Action expresses priorities.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts a...

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power...

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent ...

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied w...

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: su...

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it...

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all tho...

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you...

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and...

Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who ...

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined ...

Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State B...

For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was b...

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dre...

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

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The book...

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

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminal...

Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are crimina...

Action is the foundational key to all success.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate...

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that co...

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and...

Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not...

I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough ...

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true ...

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

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

Do the thing and you will have the power.

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

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do ...

But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up...

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would b...

In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Peace is not something you wish for,  it is something you make, something you are, something you do...

In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.