Action Quotes: Inspiring Words to Ignite Action

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

"Action conquers fear"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"The ancestor of every action is a thought"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"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

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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

"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"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

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Action expresses priorities"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"I say that justice is truth in action"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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

"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

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"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

"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers"

Learned Hand, Judge

"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes"

Bill Klem, Athlete

"Courage follows action"

Mack R. Douglas, Businessman

"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

"So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics"

Jane Addams, Activist

"America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort"

Anna C. Brackett

"I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle"

James Hutton, Scientist

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