Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Action(s).
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Dag Hammarskjold
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Al Batt
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Inga Teekens
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Russell C. Taylor
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Shirley Lord
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Haniel Long
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
Thomas Carlyle
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
Vaclav Havel
The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Arabic Proverb
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Theresa
You can't aim a duck to death.
Gael Boardman
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
Albert Pike
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
H. Ross Perot
