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Action Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Action

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. PHOTO

Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau

If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Willingness without action is a fantasy.
- Anonymous

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe in yourself. Dream big dreams.
Set important goals. Take action on those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy

Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

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