Action Quotes

The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are opposites which identify one only in the Absolute. To accomplish all one's movements – of the head, the arms, the legs – without ever quite attaining the status of a puppet, but with a certainty that gives one a feeling of rightness: that is what is nowadays held up as the ideal. Be citizens of Universal activity! Forget to be conscious of ourselves! The blind horse gallops without hesitation, not knowing where it is going, not caring where it has been: so let up put out our eyes!

~ Rémy De Gourmont

A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The more we understand the One Idea, how all of life is interconnected and interdependent, the more we can act in positive ways for the good of all.

~ Laurence Overmire

Feeling leads to understanding, understanding leads to sympathizing, sympathizing leads to action, and with action, we can change the world. - Maya Dehlin

~ John Meyer

The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It's always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what is the best.

~ Angelica Hopes

3. War Peace & Action - 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241] - 3B

~ Munindra Misra

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom.

~ Marty Rubin

We're in America; why do I have to Press 1 for English?

~ Allan Hall

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!

~ Nancy Farmer

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

~ C.g. Jung

Never confuse movement with action.

~ Ernest Hemingway

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

~ Jacques Derrida

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

~ Aristotle

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

~ Nicholas Sparks

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

~ John Stuart Mill

Never confuse Motion with Action.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Paulo Coelho

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

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

~ Brother Lawrence

Luck? Drizzt replied. Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

~ Hermann Hesse

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

~ Edward Everett Hale

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

~ Pablo Picasso

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

~ Jean Vanier

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

~ Julie Anne Peters

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

~ Paulo Coelho

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

~ Tom Stoppard

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

~ Alfred Tennyson

He loved you.

~ Marie Lu

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

~ Robert Cormier

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

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

~ Susan Sontag

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

~ Jean Vanier