Action Quotes

A creature--a frightfully, awful creature--was mere feet from her. Its eyes were enormous, the size of goose eggs and milky white. Its gray, slippery skin was stretched taut upon its face. Its mouth was wide and full of needle teeth. Its hands rested on the rock, hands that were webbed and huge with each finger ending in a sharp, curved nail. It was as tall as a human man, yet oddly shrunken and hunched.

~ M.l. Legette

Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.

~ Amit Kalantri

My action is my prayer.

~ Amit Kalantri

Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

~ Noel Dejesus

Taking action is the best source of inspiration.

~ Amit Kalantri

You have gone through enough theory, now it's time to take actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can't flirt with me during a lockdown. My eyes narrow. It's unethical.

~ Cheyanne Young

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

~ Henry Miller

Then I flipped my hair across his face and said, Do you like my hair, baby? It's Winterfresh, like a mountain spring.

~ Cheyanne Young

What is greater than painIs a greater brainMore powerful than anything.

~ Ricardo Derose

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love, it is the aim of the action.

~ M. Scott Peck

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Fools put trust in promises, The wise in action.

~ A. Spencer

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

~ Don Marquis

An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Success is more than a desire, it's a behavior. Act accordingly.

~ Steve Maraboli

If you don't stop fear, fear will stop you. Somebody's gotta stop. My advice? Don't let it be you. Whatever IT is. Do IT afraid

~ Saji Ijiyemi

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

~ Henry Melvill

Okay, so he wasn't dreaming anymore, but did this fall into same song second verse? He would just have to play this out and see what happened.

~ Kindle Alexander

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. There is this element in all the conquerors, great or small. Just because he had great gifts, greater than those of any emperor before him, he had greater difficulty in stifling the disapproving voice within him. The motive of his ambition was the craving to stifle his better self.

~ Otto Weininger

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

~ Carol Hovsepian

The most time consuming process in the world is probably thinking.

~ Amit Kalantri

Mina’s mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.

~ Meljean Brook

Are you throwing darts at the challenges in your life? Hoping something sticks? Try using a laser instead! Choose the biggest challenge you have and take action as focused and precise as a laser. Darts can go anywhere, lasers only go where you aim them...

~ James A. Murphy

This was an urban legend that didn't make it on to Snopes.com

~ Jackie Sonnenberg

I had to ask myself why I'm continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm my belief I was not enough? Did I think I needed to suffer? Did I think I could save him? Why not save myself instead? What a miserable realization that I knew all of this yet failed to take action.

~ Paula Heller Garland

We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We have to realize that even the most noble actions or most obviously correct course can have its dark side that we cannot control or reason our way out of. The fighter of the just war must understand that her actions will result in the deaths of other humans; many of whom may be innocent. The pacifist who refuses all war must realize that his inaction might likewise result in the deaths of the innocent. There are no actions without contradiction—and yet we must act, for not to act is also a contradictory action with both positive and negative effects.

~ John Hunter

Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands

~ Rae Carson

Everybody is talking about the Law of Attraction. Nobody is talking about the Law of Action.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Action without Vision is Blind,Vision without Action is Lame...

~ Richard Marcel I.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

~ Heywood Broun

I can only tell you that I've done this thing, and was compelled, somehow, to do so.

~ Jasper Siegel Seneschal

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I know.” The two words ghosted against the skin of her neck, sending goose bumps down her spine. “But I want to touch you. I want to put my hands all over you. I want to kiss every inch of you and taste you as you come apart in my arms. I want to feel you wrapped around me with nothing but my name on your lips and the sheets a tangled mess beneath us. I want…” He exhaled heavily into her ear. “I want. I want. I want!

~ Airicka Phoenix

When we feel like giving up, like we are beyond help, we must remember that we are never beyond hope. Holding on to hope has always motivated me to keep trying. I have found this hope by connecting with others. I’ve found it not only in individuals who have dealt with eating disorders but also in people who have battled addictions and those who have survived abuse, cancer, and broken hearts. I have found much-needed hope in my passions and dreams for the future. I’ve found it in prayer. Real hope combined with real actions has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through. In other words, sitting around and simply hoping that things will change won’t pick you up after a fall. Hope only gives you strength when you use it as a tool to move forward. Taking real action with a hopeful mind will pull you off the ground that eighth time and beyond.

~ Jenni Schaefer

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

~ Oscar Wilde

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself

~ Israelmore Ayivor