Action Quotes

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden...

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life an...

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are...

Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

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

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Nev...

I said, "Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?"He snorted. "You're right, the only deliv...

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...

Why...do you find this...distracting?

Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour.""Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you...

May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be re...

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

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help ...

Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. C...

I learn by going where I have to go.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ...

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That...

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the ha...

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is ...

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on ...

Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneat...

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same...

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Did nothing in particular And did it very well.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with ...

Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what ...

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we...

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The razor hung between his shoulder-blades from a loop of cotton string round his neck inside his sh...

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

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

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

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the act...

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily al...

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not...

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do u...

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble depend...

...The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath...

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands tha...

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

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

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live ...

There is no avoidance in delay.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a de...

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - o...

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our po...

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught...

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every...

We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until ...

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life happens at the level of events not words.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought...

We kept our heads down and did our jobs. We controlled the only thing we could, which was the show. ...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdepende...

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connec...

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to ...

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.

He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.