Action Quotes

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

All actions without love are just like dust in the air.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

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

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.