Action Quotes

I would like to show that we can become so much more through awareness. That is why I speak of conscious evolution. If we understand ourselves, how we think and react, why we do things... Then we can work out how to think more constructively, act more usefully, do things more easily, become more of the person we really want to be deep down inside.

~ Julia Woodman

Given that media has become fast-paced, readers now want books that show the action and don’t just tell you what is happening. Modern readers don’t want three pages of descriptions of a farmhouse. They want to hear the door’s creak quiet the chirping of crickets out in the cornfield, they want to feel the cool air drift through the house, then they want to see the shadow of a man, gun drawn, standing over the bed of his disloyal lover.

~ Jennifer Arnett

One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.

~ Michele Jennae

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

~ Suzy Kassem

The gun bounced so much in her shaky grasp that if she did fire, he’d likely be the one to catch the bullet.

~ Cathy Skendrovich

Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.

~ Tony Curl

It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you.

~ Tony Curl

There is an opportunity cost in every action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It’s not about how you feel. It’s about what you do.

~ Susan May Warren

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

~ Harshit Walia

Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.

~ Michele Jennae

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.

~ Emil M. Cioran

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction.

~ Suzy Kassem

Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action.

~ Andrea Goeglein

One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action.

~ Marty Rubin

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

~ D.h. Lawrence

There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.

~ J.r. Rim

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

~ Oscar Wilde

When the train stopped, when she got off and heard the concrete of the platform under her heels, she felt light, lifted, impelled to action. She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

~ Ayn Rand

You never know when one seemingly unrelated event may become the catalyst that sets off a chain of synchronistic events. Though you may not know for sure when something important will happen, you can always be ready to take action.

~ Andrea Goeglein

No matter how cold your proverbial winter, you can plant seeds of change in your life by changing your thoughts and actions.

~ Andra Brynnoeglein

...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man’s foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...

~ Ayn Rand

Self-education is a sacred act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as all being is but a flaw in the perfection of nonbeing. Which is God. For if God is perfection and the only perfection is in nonbeing, then God is nonbeing. Then God is nothing. Nothing can give no basis for the criticism of Thing in its thingness. Then where do you get anything to say? Then where do you get off?

~ Robert Penn Warren

Where Love meets action, there be God.

~ Todd Stocker

Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty.

~ Andrea Goeglein

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear, and we achieve little by lingering.

~ Alan Garner

Faith and hope mean absolutely nothing where consistent action fails to exist.

~ Hafiz

Swallowing, he peered down at Noelle, floored by the sheer calm reflecting back at him. You okay, babe? She rolled her eyes. Of course. What do you think I am, a pansy-ass damsel who weeps at the first sign of trouble?

~ Elle Kennedy

It suddenly occurred to him that for the first time in years, they were about to be alone together for more than five minutes. Just the two of them. On a small jet. Tens of thousands of feet in the air. Christ. Maybe he should've packed a parachute, just in case.

~ Elle Kennedy

The razor hung between his shoulder-blades from a loop of cotton string round his neck inside his shirt. The same motion of the hand which brought the razor forward over his shoulder flipped the blade open and freed it from the cord, the blade opening on until the back edge of it lay across the knuckles of his fist, his thumb pressing the handle into his closing fingers, so that in the second before the half-drawn pistol exploded he actually struck at the white man's throat not with the blade but with a sweeping blow of his fist, following through in the same motion so that not even the first jet of blood touched his hand or arm.

~ William Faulkner

The actions of man’s thoughts are similar to the action of a magnet.

~ Sunday Adelaja

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

~ Even Engesland

God honors and blesses people of action beyond expectations.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Prayers without action is activity in futility.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Fruitfulness is impossible without action.

~ Sunday Adelaja

True faith always leads to action.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is impossible to get result without action.

~ Sunday Adelaja