Action Quotes

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

You get the job done or you don't.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end

Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn!

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

Your action expresses your priorities.

A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.

Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action - whether it's a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line - people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.