Action Quotes

Welcome to Action Quotes, the best source for inspiring as well as motivational quotes from some of the world's most prominent people. Below you will certainly find quotes from well-known professional athletes, business owners, politicians, and much more, all created to help you reach your objectives and live a life of purpose. Whether you're looking for a quote to obtain you via a hard day or to aid you remain motivated, you'll find it here. So have a look around and also locate the excellent quote to help you take action and make a difference.
Small: Prayer is not an old womans idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument
Mahatma Gandhi
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
Small: Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action
Benjamin Disraeli
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
Small: Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk
Seneca the Younger
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
Small: Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, co
Giovanni Morassutti
"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"
Giovanni Morassutti, Actor
Small: Action conquers fear
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Action conquers fear"
Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman
Small: The ancestor of every action is a thought
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ancestor of every action is a thought"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Small: An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied
Arnold H. Glasow
"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"
Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman
Small: It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
Small: I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
Small: There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action
W. Somerset Maugham
"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
Small: Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can ch
Joel A. Barker
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"
Joel A. Barker, Author
Small: An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitiv
Jack Welch
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage"
Jack Welch, Businessman
Small: With devotions visage and pious action we do sugar oer the devil himself
Thomas Fuller
"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
Small: Action is the foundational key to all success
Pablo Picasso
"Action is the foundational key to all success"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action
Samuel Smiles
"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action"
Samuel Smiles, Author
Small: Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster
Theodore Roosevelt
"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
Small: If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought
Indira Gandhi
"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying"
Indira Gandhi, Statesman
Small: A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement
"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement"
Bo Bennett, Businessman
Small: Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics
"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics"
Jane Addams, Activist
Small: Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence
"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence"
David Viscott, Psychologist
Small: Id probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious
Phil Heath
"I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious"
Phil Heath, Athlete
Small: Action expresses priorities
Mahatma Gandhi
"Action expresses priorities"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
Small: Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid
Thomas Carlyle
"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
Small: Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder
Alfred A. Montapert
"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny"
Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher
Small: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction
Isaac Newton
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
Small: Action is the real measure of intelligence
Napoleon Hill
"Action is the real measure of intelligence"
Napoleon Hill, Writer
Small: While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history wit
Mattie Stepanek
"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"
Mattie Stepanek, Poet
Small: Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions
"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the
"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama"
George P. Baker
Small: We are men of action, lies do not become us
"We are men of action, lies do not become us"
William Goldman, Novelist
Small: Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"
G. M. Trevelyan, Historian
Small: Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of acti
"Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily"
Gary North, Writer
Small: He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart"
William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician
Small: Its sort of an action flick. You cant be that funny trying to steal diamonds
"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds"
Anthony Anderson, Actor
Small: Pleasure and action make the hours seem short
William Shakespeare
"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
Small: A man is not good or bad for one action
Thomas Fuller
"A man is not good or bad for one action"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
Small: Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied
Arnold H. Glasow
"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"
Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman
Small: I say that justice is truth in action
Benjamin Disraeli
"I say that justice is truth in action"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
Small: Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the
Friedrich Schiller
"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Small: There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction
John F. Kennedy
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction"
John F. Kennedy, President
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