Action quotes capture the spark that turns ideas into momentum, highlighting courage, discipline, and the resolve to begin. Drawn from thinkers, leaders, and creators across eras, they offer perspective for starting small, persevering through obstacles, and aligning intentions with steps that matter. Whether seeking motivation for a new habit, clarity in decision-making, or steady encouragement during change, these words aim to nudge thought into motion. Explore themes of initiative, responsibility, and follow-through, and find reminders that progress often starts with a single, deliberate move.
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"
"It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action"
"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"
"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves"
"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold"
"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action"
"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"
