Action Quotes

Take ACTION! When we DO NOT take action, our potentiality becomes the soil that houses the seeds of our regret.

~ Steve Maraboli

Focusing on what you don’t want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction.

~ Steve Maraboli

Happiness, success, peace, and love are experienced when we live accordingly. They are not something you have, they are something you DO.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen. In fact, it's rather arrogant for us to be on this planet that's been here for so long and expect to be able to control life on it. If we want to see changes, then our task is to set things in motion, not to micromanage and make them happen in the ways we think they should. If we have something that is possessing us, such as alcohol or our television sets or our cell phones, then it could be time to let it go and move on with our lives. If we're holding on to resentment and anger, we're simply raising our own stress levels and blood pressure, but we're not contributing anything positive to the situation--and it's time to let it go.

~ Tom Walsh

If no one on this planet ever loves you, I always will.

~ C.j. Reid

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

When those who are responsible for the leadership of State begin to move in villainous ways; when they begin to destroy the fabric of what it is that our nation is held together with; when they violate the Constitution of our nation and begin to do things that are false to our dreams and our hopes--it is incumbent upon every citizen by right, but also by responsibility, to challenge that administration, to raise their voice in vigorous dissent and to challenge the way in which the state is doing business. And those who fail to do that, should be charged with patriotic treason!

~ Teddy Roosevelt

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.

~ Rivera Sun

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

~ Barack Obama

All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

~ Charles F. Kettering

In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming.

~ Jan Mckingley Hilado

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

~ Orrin Woodward

Her eyes narrowing, she turned her attention back to where Stephanie stood with Ben, feeling her own pain turn to intense fury. “Dominic knew her so damn well because he was usually thinking the same thing. She was his female version – two halves fitting perfectly together,” Gena spat out, anger inflected in her voice. “Like him, she’s reckless and like him, once she gets something into her head nothing or no one will change her mind.” Her fury revealed itself in her eyes, as she spat out, “And, like him, she’s going to get herself killed.” - Gena Evans, Nowhere to Run

~ Nina D'angelo

Let your words merely reiterate what your actions have already stated.

~ Steve Maraboli

Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.

~ Orrin Woodward

Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

~ Erving Polster

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!

~ Rick Riordan

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don’t have to prove anything to me.

~ Alina Klein

Griping is for those without a plan of action...

~ Neal Shusterman

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

~ Myles Horton

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again. Even if it killed him.

~ Jennifer Lowery

It is true that in general, energy which is aimed at positive factors usually obtains better results than energy invested in resistance!

~ Iris Eshel

They say in moments of great fear or desperation, a man will always make a choice—either to flee or face his enemy, but choice requires thought, and in the moment when you know for certain that death is stalking you with strides you cannot outrun, there is no time for thought. You do not choose. Like Betto, or Malchus, or Valens, you act, doing either one thing or the other.

~ Andrew Levkoff

Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought.

~ Amit Abraham

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.” - Stephanie Carovella

~ Nina D'angelo

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices, after philosophy there must be action, the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

~ Victor Hugo

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

~ Plato

Many people experience the travesty of regret in their end days; the realization that nothing held them back, that nothing was in their way, that there is no one to blame, only themselves. Don't just sit by waiting for your life to happen, make it happen! Don’t just hope your dreams will come alive, breathe life into them! Don't let your fear help you birth a well-nourished regret, take action today! At the end of the day, at the end of the year, at the end of your life, live in such a manner that you can hold your head up high, smile, and be proud of a life well lived.

~ Steve Maraboli

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

~ Susanna Kearsley

Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.

~ Henry Mosquera

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

~ Orrin Woodward

Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

~ Orrin Woodward

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

~ A.j. Jacobs

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.

~ William Sterrett

The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.' There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra?

~ D.j. Stutley