Action Quotes

Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If something needs to be done, do it. If something needs to be said, say it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

~ Ryan Lilly

I had had a feeling of freedom because of the sudden change in my life. By comparison to what had come before, I felt immensely free. But then, once I became used to that freedom, even small tasks became more difficult. I placed constraints on myself, and filled the hours of the day. Or perhaps it was even more complicated than that. Sometimes I did exactly what I wanted to do all day—I lay on the sofa and read a book, or I typed up an old diary—and then the most terrifying sort of despair would descend on me: the very freedom I was enjoying seemed to say that what I did in my day was arbitrary, and that therefore my whole life and how I spent it was arbitrary.

~ Lydia Davis

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love is the source of all creation, happiness is the essence of all action.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you take an action with love, there is always happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you take an action to improve humanity, you are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth.

~ George R.r. Martin

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

~ William S. Burroughs

Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

~ Majid Kazmi

You can have all the right reasons in the world. They don’t mean shit, my friend, if what you do causes harm.

~ Thea Harrison

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

~ Donald Miller

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

~ Ryan Lilly

There is nothing to lose by trying. Define new ways of doing things. Never underestimate the power of an action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

~ Marty Rubin

Action is the means through which the intangible becomes tangible.

~ Eleesha

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

~ Steven David Levine

The twins stopped and stared in surprise at the two vampires guarding a door on their right. The vampires returned their look of surprise.What are you doing here? One of the vampires hissed.We're looking for Taco Bell. Luther said cheerfully as he and Tyrone reached behind their backs.Left or right, Tyrone?I'll take the one on the left. Tyrone replied.

~ Elizabeth Kelly

It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

~ Rebecca Solnit

I rolled my eyes. To Jack I said, Don't mind him, he's just mad no one likes him.Jonas clenched his jaw.

~ K.f. Breene

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Although, in my defense, a nonblinking eye rape was rarely the kind of thing you just eased into.

~ K.f. Breene

The surgical resident interested in learning trauma will bypass a residency at a quiet community hospital for a residency at a fast-paced Level 1 trauma center treating a high volume of trauma patients. A Level 1 trauma center residency is far more rigorous—and not particularly glamorous—but the intensive culture of a dedicated trauma center will cultivate the decisive judgment and action required of a surgeon specializing in trauma. By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.

~ Marian Deegan

You will find your purpose revealed in every single action, once you realize that — you — are your purpose.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Everyday, in our quest to grab the new, the trendy, the coolest stuff, we forget to use the old and our daily lives become stuck in the vicious cycle, chasing after stuff without working the old. Today, pause, slow down, take time, revisit those lessons, materials and take the necessary baby-steps. It pays. Go, make it happen!

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself.

~ Otto Weininger

Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys.

~ Marian Deegan

Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys. ― Marian Deegan

~ Marian Deegan

Love is a lens of an observer. Love is an attitude with action.

~ Bryant Mcgill

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

~ Shelique Lize

Hurrying back into the rouge lighting in sheer terror, Amelia ran without another word, escaping into the shadows of the dungeon, and she shrieked for salvation that never came.

~ Shelique Lize

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action, the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

~ Aristotle

Like two lost souls, we fall asleep in each other's arms, hoping to find ourselves once again.

~ Jalpa Williby