Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Action(s).
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Arthur Pine
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Peace Pilgrim
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
James Levin
You can't start at the top.
Samuel Levenson
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
Peter Levi
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. Skinner
We have to understand the world can only be grasped by action, not by comtemplation. The hand is more important than the eye....The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski
It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.
Dalai Lama, The Path to Tranquil
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Francis Hutcheson
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Edwin P. Whipple
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
Ching Ning Chu
Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
Bo Bennett
How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
Bob Marley
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
Wayne Dyer
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
Johann von Goethe
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
